Day One: crew arrival

It's still a big mess to sort out, but we're getting closer. Six people loaded 360 bottles of mineral water onto a 36 foot yacht. There are some nice mathematical remarks to be made about that. There is now some less space on the boat, especially in the lazarette. But that was always too big and easy to lose stuff in. A lot of the stuff that resided in it, is now sitting in the cockpit, so a nice challenge there to get rid of it all - or at least a lot of it.

And we still have some more equipment coming today, sails and a generator and diving gear. But everything will fit in there at some time so today I'll do some sorting out of all that's not where it should be.

Also today, two people of our departing crew are arriving. They will be staying until Portugal, so it's nice to meet Helen and Troy face to face at last. The other two crew we've already met, tomorrow everybody will be together and we'll see what happens.

Last week, I got all the odd ends sorted so the boat is ready to go and so am I. There still will be the usual pre-departure stowing and cleaning, but today, a good year has already begun!