michael's round the world adventure

 
 
A very quick blog post as we enjoy the warm hospitality here in Cape Breton Island. Cork has been here in Sydney since Saturday morning, and it's really proving to be a most welcoming place. A small community, but so very friendly. This evening, we have an event where the skippers are all to be sworn into the order of Sou'esters (I think that's right...), so nearly time to think about heading off to that!

We've been enjoying some very pleasant sunshine up to today, keeping the daytime temperatures quite nice. It's gotten a lot cloudier and duller during today though. Still, the boat is pretty much ready to go, a few final adjustments required - and some fairly fundamental bits of our rig to be replaced to ensure we make it. Turns out one of the cables that holds the mast up is coming apart, so we cannot leave until that is sorted! We're promised it will be done on Wednesday, so keep fingers crossed...

So, on Thursday we will set off for Cork, hoping to take about 2 weeks to get across. Fingers crossed we will get some favourable winds, and we will be able to put up a good show against the Clipper 68's. Sailing into our home port is going to mean so much to us all on board, to be able to do so ahead of the rest of the fleet would be amazing.

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