Final Preparations in Lisbon.

Arion's West Indian Adventure
Hermione & Douglas Pattison
Sun 1 Nov 2015 19:20
After 3 long days of preparation Arion is finally ready for the first stage of her transatlantic adventure.

Many thanks to Nick Colbourne who drove Douglas & Graham down to meet Arion who was lying out of the water in Alges Lisbon.

Nick has undertaken most of the technical work over the last 3 days and I will be forever grateful for his assistance.

We have spend this afternoon researching the weather which is not ideal. A bit too much wind is coming from the south west. However it will have to do.

Alastair is flying in to join us this evening and our current plan is to leave at 09.00 hrs tomorrow evening for a 525 miles to Porto Santo Maderia expecting a 5day passage.

We will try and send position updates over the next few days from the Sat phone.