Alex - packing continues....

Marc came aboard yesterday and sorted Airmail and the HFHigh Frequency – usually refers to HF radio which is long range digital radio that Berrimilla used to send all but a few of the logs on both circumnavigations. The radio was connected via a Pactor 3 digital modem to Alex’s laptop and used the Sailmail software application called Airmail to send emails and pull in emails, weather and GRIB files. Airmail also supports Iridium satellite telephone messaging and Alex used this as backup when the HF radio died approaching England. connections for us and we did a test flight storing the diesel containers in the forepeak. Food mostly bagged and McQ has been making lists to be laminated. Can’t believe that we might actually be able to find things.

GustsShort increases in wind speed – or people who signed the Gust Book. in the GustbookThe Guest Book on the Berri site, so named to prevent spammers finding it to offer, or request unusual services and medications. The Gust book is here.! Hi everyone and welcome back to some of you! It’s 3 in the morning here – McQ is out getting her final fix of partying and I’m thinking of all the hundreds of tiny things that never made it on to lists. Eisenhower said that a plan was useless but planning was everything – and Montgomery is said to have been able to sleep immediately before a battle knowing that everything had been done that could have been. Montgomery I am not.

Today, we will wedge in the diesel containers with packed inflatables, sails, fenders – whatever fits – and perhaps fill them. Take most of the food down and load it into the starboard quarterberth. Pack the papers, books, charts, manuals…Fill the water tank…screw in the spare watermaker…find my wet weather gear…buy dental floss…

Almost time, too, to look at the weather for next week. McQ is stressing that she’s almost never got past Coffs without some sort of headbang so we’ll have to start in a southerly! She does have her HGTTGThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; essential reading for those trying to understand these logs. You may be none the wiser once you’ve read it, but at least you’ll have tried. More here set though so when the Vogon Constructor FleetExtremely ugly, unpleasant and officious, the Vogons emerged from the seas of Vogsphere and became bureaucrats in the Galactic Government. They destroyed the earth to clear the way for a hyperspace bypass; see also HHGTTGThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; essential reading for those trying to understand these logs. You may be none the wiser once you’ve read it, but at least you’ll have tried. More here arrives to obliterate Coffs, we will both recognise it and go for the towels. Will be fun to read it all again – Berri at the end of the universe with MarvinThe manically depressed robot with a “brain the size of a planet” from HHGTTGThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; essential reading for those trying to understand these logs. You may be none the wiser once you’ve read it, but at least you’ll have tried. More here out in the carpark.

All very ephemeral at the mo. I remember how hard the last one was at times and I hope we can work this one out as we go along – the benefit of planning rather than a plan.