Herdip report!

What a week! My brain hurts (as does Elin's!) There is no excuse for either of us getting lost anymore, because we've passed our navigation course! Also managed sea survival, First Aid, and VHF radio course!)
It's been a tough week. First day involved learning all about "Mayday's, Pan Pan and Secruite!".
Luckily, Elin and I were good little students and practised our phonetic alphabet on the way down, using car number plates!
Sea survival involved an afternoon at the local pool, it was great fun and I managed to get into the liferaft on my own: good effort I thought! We looked fab in our clothes, swimming caps and life jackets, especially Elin! Our team (6 boys + us!) very nearly managed to give a slightly older man a panic attache after throwing endless buckets of water at him! Oops! Luckily all was fine.
The really hard work began on Monday!. Maths like you've never seen before! My head was hurting! IO think I had a bit of a strop because my brain couldn't cope at one point and Elin was still trying to figure out North & South! Anyway, it all clicked sand we managed to pass. We can now plot our position on a graph, draw a map from scratch - pretty impressive I reckon! Mind you, Elin did cause me some concern when she said that you'd cross the Atlantic in the summer as it would be nice and sunny! Never mind the hurricane alert Elin!
One major impressive achievement is that we weren't late once during the whole week!!! Yipeee!!!
Final note: I've never done so much homework in my life, and never again!

finally another update!

sorry for being slack and not keeping you updated on progess!
it's been eventful if not always productive!
we've passsed our RYA Ocean Yachtmaster, Sea Survival and First Aid (that one was a bit hit and miss!) but Herdip will tell you all about our coures drama soon!

The most IMPORTANT news of all is that we have a corporate sponsor! SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED! You have no idea. Mapeley came through a friend of a patient, so it's a very special link and one that I'm sure will work well! Thank you Jamie, from the bottom of our hearts!

Our boat is delayed! Aaarrrggghhh! With the boat builder on a 3 week holiday now! Double aaarrrghhh! Fingers crossed it won't be further delayed than August the 24th, the date which they are now working to.

19 weeks to go! Off walking Breacon Beacons to help my training and prepare me for isolation, tranquility and beautiful scenery ...