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Nearly ready to go
May 20th, 2008, 6:33:50 pm
Final preparations are going very well indeed. The boat is now fully equipped, antifouled, polished and waxed and almost completely packed. I originally thought I would not have enough space to store everything I needed to take but it looks like I may have space to spare!
The plan for the rest of this week is to finish packing tomorrow and then to do a “trial” run with everything exactly as it will be on Saturday. This will probably be a trip to Falmouth or Fowey depending on weather with an overnight stop to try everything out. Also, that trip will do the final tests for the real-time tracking which I am very excited about. Viewers to the web site can see my position updated every 10 minutes so when I am at sea you will be able to follow my progress in real time. Just click on “Live Tracking” on the right-hand side.
If all goes well then I should be ready to leave on Saturday as planned but at the moment the weather may have something to say about that. The current forecasts are predicting F4-5 and if that is how it turns out then I may delay my departure until Sunday or Monday when the forecast is looking better.
I would just like to remind everyone that I am doing this to raise money for the RNLI “Train one, save many” campaign. The RNLI is a charity and gets no government funding so it is supported solely by donations and lifeboats are crewed almost entirely by volunteers so please make a donation to the RNLI, no matter how small, by clicking on the “Sponsor Me” button on the web site.
Finally, I would like to thank all my sponsors and my wife for getting me this far and now the real fun begins…
