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Actually, OF COURSE I finished. Just a little over a year ago, into London. We WON the final race from Londorry to London and finished 5th overall. But somehow, even after 150 blogs I never quite got around to writing about the finish and wrapping it all up, even after a team UNICEF reunion in London in July 23 and the marking of the first anniversary of race finish.

And what has prompted this over-due reflection?? Well, I’m off again. Tomorrow to be exact. Driving today from Malaga (where I have just said goodbye to Ruth) to Huelva in Southern Spain to join a 62ft yacht called Stormbird at the beginning of what is arguably her second leg in a 3.5 year west-about circumnavigation of the globe. How did I get involved in this? That, and much more, will follow in subsequent blogs. But right now I’m all packed and about to “do quite a bit of it all” again. Huelva to Madeira to the Canaries now with Nick – skipper and owner, Mark, Peter, Angus and another Keith W (small world) and then, for me, across the Atlantic from the Canaries to Barbados in January 2024, Panama to Galapagos in the spring and (fingers crossed) Cook Islands-Fiji-Tonga and New Zealand in the autumn of next year. Hopefully more to follow in 2025/26. On, and we were meant to be sailing from Malaga tomorrow but the sailing programme was altered because of ………. Orca attacks. Now there’s a blog (to follow) that I hadn’t anticipated writing 😀.