We arrived in London safely on July 5. The trip up the Thames River was really an experience and I managed to get our arrival in the delta timed quite well - just at the end of the ebb tide. We just made the river it's self when the flood tide started and we managed between 9 and 10 knots all the way to Tower Bridge - the fastest the boat had manages for the entire trip!

After a few days of cleaning and getting Ultima Life ready for the handover to the owner, the time arrived and off I was, via a very disrupted Heathrow airport, back to Cape Town.

My radio has now been properly repaired by Icom America and, hopefully, will give me a few more years of service. To check the system, this email is being sent off via the Winlink system. John.