PLANNING FOR 2009

This year we would like to do a bit of a trip , you know sort of challenge ourselves , the boat is fantastic , but what of the crew , will he do it singlehanded ? , yes i want to , but any crew to help would be great , . At the moment we are based in Gruissan in the south of France , , and yes we did sail her down from Hull to falmouth and then accross the big bay to Spain and Portugal and then into the Med and ultimatley up to France , last year i did a bit of singlehanding around the balierics , loverley it was to . So onto the plan for this year , I fancy sailing down the costa brava etc and costa del sol and back out into the atlantic , a bit the the algarve would be nice , and then a trip to Madeira , its only a few hundred miles , yes that sounds great , leave about april time then come back later in the year ,,,,, thats it then , settled , first of all I need to do a bit of work on Simo . I went to the boat show , and spent a few bob , i got a chart plotter , a.i.s and met up with a few old mates , anyway now i have to get the goodies installed in the boat and am hoping my old mate from Nevian , nr Narbonne will give me a hand , with the wiring and all that nmea nonsense , . Ive got a place on the wall at the Zone Technich in Gruissan and next week plan to take the mast out , for revarnishing and of course to run the new cable for the antenna up the mast i plan to take a few pics of everything i do for the trip and on the trip , also take some video , I am planning on one of the head gear camera's so i can film at any time ,,, the reason is when it gets rough ,, and trust me it does sometimes ,, the last thing you think about is getting the video camera out , and really thats what everybody wants to see , crazy really but it's fact , and the truth is you are crapping yourself and wondering if you or the boat are going to be able to handle it all , so if your with me , here goes, lets enjoy the trip .......