Packing again

Packing! I seem to be forever on the move, and Friday I’m off again. Back to Gosport and Clipper training this time, the very last training level.

But that’s next Tuesday, first we have a team building weekend in the New Forest. Twenty three of us in a very large house and all sorts of shenanigans planned!

I’m driving down so I’ll collect two fellow crew from Southampton station, and on the way to our venue we will do the victualling (a very large shop) for the weekend…all good practice. We have some major decisions to make on the upcoming race, not everyone is able to join us for the weekend so one of the more techie minded crew is creating a live link to the rest of the crew. One decision, our boat song, has been the topic of conversations since crew allocation day with some wonderful suggestions. So we will vote on that. We are still awaiting information on our “race partner” that’s our boat sponsor and CV21 will take on our partners name and colours and identity. Most of the other boats have their race partners are painted up and looking good, the three Chinese ones are very colourful, I love the blue of the UNICEF boat (I had rather hoped that might be us – that colour really suits me!).

So we are still waiting…never mind it just adds to the excitement. Barbecue on the Saturday night, lots of music (and hopefully a bit of a boogie) A day off for me on Monday, I may get the ferry to Cowes and visit relatives, and then Tuesday the dreaded Level 4….surely it can’t be any worse than what we’ve already been through…