A little bit Windy.

The South Easter has been blowing here. Non-stop since the weekend.

So what?

It's been blowing about 45 to 50 knots. That's what!
I took this picture earlier today. That is a waterfall behind Simonstown and the wind is driving the water UPWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the folk down here tells me it's gonna blow like that on start day too.



That means we are having it on the nose for the 18 mile beat out of Simonstown to Cape Point. Not the best way for me to start an ocean passage. Not with my leaning towards mal de mer, that's for shure.




The talk at the Club is all about the gales and how to get out of here if it blows on Wednesday. Jeremy and I have talked it through. Our strategy is going to be to just nurse the Banjo to Cape Point and to get out of False Bay in one piece. Double reefed and storm jib. Not to worry about what the others are doing. We will start racing once we have rounded the Point and we are aiming for St Helena.




But deep down I believe it's going to be nice weather on start day.




I had earlier spent the day fiddling around with the two solar panels and fitting some plastic bushes to their mountings. Just to make it smoother to adjust their orientation to the sun.




Late this afternoon Jeremy brought our 50 litres of bottled water. We stowed most of it in the lockers under the saloon bunks. The rest will go behind the backrests of the bunks and under the cockpit floor.




On Monday we will purchase our food and get that stashed away too. I have never been so ready to set sail.