Hi Everyone,

Firstly let me introduce myself, I am Richards’ daughter, Louise and live with Rob in Buckinghamshire. We’ve been logging onto the Blogg regularly to see how my Dad has been getting on. I hope I can keep up the good work and lighthearted approach that Dick adopted. Unfortunately I know nothing about weather patterns, navigation charts or sailing for that matter so I’ll be relying heavily on interpretation and input from other people for the technical data!

Richard has been in Brest this week fitting tingles etc. and is leaving Brest today (Sunday) with his new crew (Chris) and heading south for Corunna, Spain. Route to be advised.