7 Days to Go!

It is now just 7 days to go.

Hard to imagine that it was way back in March that I took the bold (for me!) step and entered the Banjo in the race. And now the start date is here. It's seven days to go.

We are all but done. We had the race safety inspection done yesterday morning and I am pleased to say that we passed without any problems.

What remains to be done now is to put the water and provisions onboard. That we will do Monday when Tanya arrives.

We must still do the radio checks with the race organisers and clear customs. That's it.

All the late nights and hard work over the last 9 months have paid dividents. And that is how I had wanted it to be. I wanted the Banjo to arrive at the start running, ready to go.

Thanks to all those who had helped us so far.

Tanya, my sailing life manager, Patrick our butler who helped me launch boats and step masts, the Pennypinchers staff in Humansdorp for their support, Graham for the spinnaker and liferaft, the Bagshaws here in Simonstown, the False Bay Club folk, Andrew McKenzie for lending us some more spinnakers. I can carry on...................

But we have won the race to the start line.

The Gov Cup is going to be the easy bit!