I have been back in Cape Town for over a month now and slowly preparing the privately owned Chez Patrick, a Leopard 46, for delivery to Grenada.

On board will be myself, Pat and Sherryl Davies (the owners) and Gareth Davies. We are planning to depart on Saturday 15 October and having just had a look at the seven day forecast, the 15th looks good as a departure date. The planned route is from Cape Town to St Helena Island, where we will spend a few days, and then on to Prickly Bay, Grenada, in the southern Caribbean, a trip that should take six to seven weeks.

So, as we get closer to departure, I will post another update. Also, Sherryl should be keeping her blog running at the same time. It has just been formatted and thus it will take a bit of time to get it going "full steam". It will be found at: http://www.sailblogs.com/member/yachtletters/

Greeting for now - see you all in a few days time. John