At least one of us is counting the days until the Atlantic crossing starts, it is coming around very quickly from the time that you will be reading this blog entry it will be less than 25 days until our planed crossing should start and it is only 20 days until I jump on board a plane to fly to the other side of the world to meet up will the crew and to be back on Annecam. This will give me 2 days to brief the crew, do the last minute provisioning and to check all of the systems are working before departure.
Our rough plan is for me with the help of two very competent sailors. Is to sail across the Atlantic to the Caribbean via the Canary Islands. The two crew members will then depart for their respective homes and Annie, after having a couple of months new grandson time will jump back on board sometime after to sail with me and some of our family down to the southern part of the Caribbean before the hurricane season starts. As usual all plans are subject to change because of weather, breakdowns and family issues back in Australia.
The youtube video clip is the passage from Malta to Tunisia via Lampedusa Island, we made it two overnight sails in very calm conditions, almost no wind to speak of and a nice flat sea. Most of the time we felt that we were all alone as there were no other boats in sight, although the AIS told us that we were not alone. Check out the tuna we nick named ‘Trevor’ this one fish we estimated the weight at about 55 kilograms, took well over one hour to release at the back of Annecam, this happened not that long before we arrived at Lampedusa.
Life is starting to get a little exited on Annecam.