A note from his better half - am I allowed to say this??
Dear me, this is a chap who worked in IBM and has not yet really moved on with technology..yet!. An email of instructions has been sent to him illustrating 'baby steps' to update the blog but no luck as of yet!.
This is a brief summary of where he is and what has happened so far.
Well.... he eventually left Ramsgate after many frustrating days of waiting for the right weather to come, but as you all know -it has been a pretty bad month rain and wind wise. Left and sailed for Dover (lost track of when he did this but I will update this) and arrived in Eastbourne Monday 7th May - Bank Holiday.
An interesting resort or marina - and very expensive. They charged not just the mooring fees but electricity on top. Unfortunately he hurt his knee and took a couple of days for the swelling to subside.
Anyway, today is the 11 May, and I have just received a text saying he was retiring to bed about 8pm with a view to getting away around 3-4am. He is planning to head for Brighton.
This is a note from me to all of you - if any of you are interested in doing a leg or just visiting him or doing a sail from here to there or even fancy a challenging route - which I am sure some of you know what i am talking about... I hope as I do not really know... routes like from Cornwall to Wales (Milford Haven?) and then upwards to Ireland - Mull etc... please email him, phone him or even better just nag him to give you an approximation of plans. He is very much bound to the weather and cant promise accurate dates and so on. He would love to see you. (by the way I have banned him from coming up the Bristol Channel!!)
Once he gets Akira to Poole, he will have a few days off as the sails will be 'serviced' and then back on as normal.
Fiona
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