The Examiner, my ipad and a trip to a wedding

This should have been posted from Taipei a week or so ago but the ipad and the website won’t communicate… A half mile walk from Bobbles to the bus station in Port Townsend, 2 x 40 min bus rides, the Bainbridge Island ferry (huge car ferry from the island to downtown Seattle), 10 minute walk to light rail station, 25 min in the train to SeaTac airport, car to Carla`s and back (thanks Carla, yet again) United to SFO, then to Taipei and here i am (well, was, really) about 44 hours later. Big celebrations 2 days later, Hi to Bianca (for the initiated:) ) and then the whole thing in reverse to be back in PT, ExaminerShe who asks awkward questions of the crew and tests them with difficult tasks. permitting, on the 8th (yesterday, as it happened, with 4 days to panic). Megan and friend Martin have flight tested Bobbles and I still have to have my first sail…And, for the rusted on Berri fans, Sue and Jim Corenman are coming to visit tomorrow, along with Jim Love who owns a Bobbles clone. Sue and Jim C. are based in Friday Harbour and run the wonderful worldwide 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. network that we relied on during the circumnavigations. Shouuld be quite a meeting and I expect we’ll need a proper 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. Watch this space and i’ll try to post photos.