We have water!!!! Our desalinator officially produced its first liter of H2O so we are all extremely excited. Doesnt taste quite the same as the good H20 coming out of the tap at home, but looks like water, smells like water, and tastes very similar to water so we are just going to claim it as water.
We also have a Sat Phone which works, together with a weather routing system. After many days of frustration, we managed to set the whole thing up, so now we have weather routing, calls and email all ready to go. Yes please! The hard part still involves connecting this now to the boats own instruments, a feat which will take place on Tuesday. Hold thumbs.
Racing in Aus is going well so far. Rick and Ryan had a superb day yesterday leading the fleet in one of the races until they had a mini-collission with a shark. Ask no more. They ended up finishing fourth in that race, which is still a great result. Michaela Mae has not been too well, so she was booked off racing yesterday. Holding thumbs she is fully recovered by tomorrow.
Cape Town is blowing a hooly for close on the sixth day in a row. As a result, I have chosen to cancel the trip to Underberg for New Years, and hopefully get in some good sailing this weekend. That is provided this silly South Easter will subside at some point.
Anyhow, we are exactly 51 minutes from market closing and 51 minutes from me leaving this desk.
Have a wonderful New Years....
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