Departed Saldanha bay South Africa, May 30th 2PM.

I don’t know why it’s always so hard to leave on a major passage.  You might think by now that I would be used to it.  Sometimes I think it’s just the endless preparations, maybe it’s just pre-trip anxiety or the ‘jitters’.  Maybe it’s the flashbacks to the not so great times in prior passages.   I’m sure a part of it is knowing that your boats not ‘perfect’.  “Ah hah” you say, “You’r leaving and your boats not perfect!?”.  Well as some of you must know, no boat is ever perfectly ready.  All you can do is hope she is ready enough.  If I made a list of all the pre-departure things I didn’t get around to doing you would be amazed.  And possibly even more amazed if I made a list of all the things I DID do.   But enough philosophising on passages and preparedness and lets get on with the story of this one.   Read the rest of this entry