Today marks just under a month from the race day.
Ciao Bella is safely in the yard at Royal Cape Yacht Club, having some maintenance performed. Even with Bradley and Brennan overseeing the maintenance, Slaap Stad has lived true to its word with some of the contractors having very little sense of time constraints and urgency. That aside, hopefully the mast inspection, rudder repairs, and anti-fouling will be done by this weekend. The RCYC crane being out of order has not helped, with the boat now only being scheduled to go into the water next Monday.
Bradley, Ricky and Brennan are currently sailing Table Bay Week. Ricky is helming "Gumption", Brad is doing foredeck on "Squirt" and I'm not sure what Bren is sailing on. Altogether looks like it is going quite well. This is post a very successful Intervarsity regatta at Theewaterskloof the week before, where the boys took silver.
Michaela Mae and Ryan are sailing Junior Nationals at the Vaal Dam. The sailing is going ok despite the monsoon weather conditions that they have been experiencing. With there being nothing worse than putting on a wet wetsuit in the cold, the weather has ended up with many mornings being spent with little Michaela trying to put on a wetsuit under a warm shower with Ricky waiting patiently outside holding all her kit.
Next Tuesday sees Ricky, Ryan, Michaela and Brennan flying off to Aus. They are sailing World Champs in Albany (somewhere in the south) in early Jan, so are hoping to get the boats unloaded off the container and some training in before the time. They fly back on the 14th Jan.
The rest of us will be down in CT from half-way through next week. Hopefully the boat will be in the water and we can move to finishing off certain things around the navigation and electronics, safety equipment, meal plans and other stuff that needs to be seen to.
Have a good weekend,
Love Kax
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