We are well on the way now for a departure across Biscay, hopefully on Monday, albeit we have a number of jobs that must be done before leaving. Tomorrow, I shall be reinstalling the entire gas system to eliminate the minor leak we have. The genoa will be coming down early tomorrow morning in order to stitch up the head reinforcing tape which seems to have lost a few stitches. Safety lines are being replaced and most important of all, provisioning day is here! This involves making an exact menu to cover seven days right down to the number of cuppa soups we shall each be drinking. The crossing should take about five days but we will provision for seven days to allow for any unforeseen contingencies that we may need to deal with. The trip from Brixham today took ten hours, motored all the way into a very heavy wind and bouncy sea - plenty of water over the deck - but the highlight of the day was a pod of about fifteen dolphins that visited us early this morning for about ten minutes which made up for the rest of the day. As it's nearly 10pm now, we should all be relaxing, but we are all working on boat preparations. I suspect it will be another late night!