With the arrival of Glenn Ross on Monday evening, the team for ARC 2008 is now complete. Glenn had travelled from a small town 200 miles inland from Vancouver, Canada and his trip was made more complicated by the road along the lake to the local airport being washed away and then the first of his 5 flights being delayed by heavy snowfall in Calgary. It was a tribute to modern travel that he still made all five connections and arrived on time.

I have also an apology to make to Chris DARLINGTON  who for some unknown reason I called Chris Davenport????

The team are now busy preparing the boat for the start and after a day going through the boat from stem to stern we will take her out sailing today to test all sail configurations and run through Man Overboard drills, etc.

The preparations are being hampered by the many parties and subsequent late nights that are a feature of the ARC and in particular the last week before the start.

The photo above shows Trish and Helen preparing the costumes for the tonight’s Caribbean Carnival fancy dress party that should prove to be great fun. The pictures should be outrageous!!