Jul 23, 2005 – 0700hrs UTC │Lymington

0700hrs 23 Jul 2005 UTC Lymington

The radio is back, reportedly fixed and tested, but too late to fit yesterday, so it will go in on monday. If it works and everything else still works the monday update will come via sailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a network of private coast stations in the maritime Mobile Radio Service. – keep your fingers crossed for us and hold your collective breath.

Dave and Carmen Giddings from RANSARoyal Australian Navy Sailing Association; a sailing club located in Sydney, Australia. turned up yesterday and we had a short ConsultationA regular engagement with alcohol. One might say this whole epic is a Consultation with a bit of a sail round it. See also Conservation Mode; Linear and Parallel Methods of Consultation on board with them – noiceAlexism for quite a lot of things which taste good or are going especially well to see them and to hear other people speaking roight. And we were able to gloat quietly about the cricket.

Into the small to do stuff now – except the radio and the spreader, which we will look at with the local rigger on Monday. Then some spinnaker practice…

We got a small mention in the August Yachting WorldMagazine published in the UK and there will be a full article in Yachting MonthlyMagazine published in the UK in – we think – September, complete with photos. The photographer was on board yesterday taking lots of pics – he’s a sailor too and took stuff that interested him as well so it will be educative to see what the editor goes with. Youse all will see it before we do if all is going well.