The journey begins

Before we delve into the details of our adventure, it is probably fair to give some background as to how the adventure has come about. 

Post Dad blowing his cash flow on four tickets to Australia for the kids to sail in the Mirror World Championships in Albany in early January 2011, Brennan kindly pointed out that their tickets were scheduled to return on 14th January.  Exactly a day before the start of the Rio race.  So lazing around on the vaal on some idle Sunday afternoon, the famous sentence started like this:  How cool would it be if...

And the rest is history.

With the idea merely still pie in the sky, we moved to looking at the possibility of a getting hold of a boat.  While Three Wishes (our 33ft trimaran that is moored on the vaal) was an option, the chance to do the race on a racer was that much more appealing.  The deal was sealed as Mark Hammick kindly lent us his 35ft Simonis design yacht - Ciao Bella.        

We have since spent many a fun Saturday and Sunday on Ciao Bella since.  A beautiful boat which I hope is going to love the trip as much as we are going to enjoy sailing the trip on her. 

After the first seed was planted on that lazy Sunday afternoon, to today as we load Ciao Bella onto the truck for her trip down to Cape Town, much has happened.  I hope to share some of the bits and pieces that have happened in the past three months, and as we move along share more pieces of the adventure with you.