Two Up

With Jeremy and Anita in Buenos Aires, en route to Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn.

I first met Jeremy, my co skipper, navigator and weather router (one person) way back in the early 1980's at what was then the University of Port Elizabeth. At the Law faculty! Yep, the Law faculty. We both studied law. With various degrees of success.

Luckily for the legal profession, neither of us became attorneys, although that is what I was aiming for at the time. Or magistrates like my late dad. Or took on some other stuffy legal tipe job.

We both raced a few seasons with the Port Elizabeth legend, Rod van der Weele on his boat Wings. And then raced the 1985 South Atlantic Race, Cape Town to Punta Del Este in Uruguay with Rod and Arthur Clayton. It was an epic ocean race and Wings was right up there with the leaders most of the way. The press referred to us as "the joker in the pack" because we were really rattling the big boys.

Afterwards the two of us and one other chap sailed Wings back across the South Atlantic to Port Elizabeth for her owners.

In 2007 we travelled to Tiera del Fuego to join Skip Novak's Pelagic Australis for a cruise down the Patagonian channels to Cape Horn.

And now we are going to give it a go and see if we can be first boat in at St Helena.