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04/16/2010: "A sailing we will go...."

Only a week to go and I fly to the Phillipines to step onto the next phase in lifes sailing adventure. Lock Crowther designed two catamarans for the 1988 Around Australia Yacht Race. I race on one, the 40ft 'John West'. The other, the 50 ft version 'Top Gun' did not make it to the start line. She went on to set a few race records in Queensland for a few years and then sailed off with her new French Owner into Asia. With the second Around Australia Yacht race coming up in 2011 I plan to have another go, this time with the bigger cat. The same owner has campained the yacht thoughout Asia, still setting records. Now it is time she came home to the Port she was built in. Cairns.
It will be an adventure getting her back. We plan to go east into Palau, the carolines and down past PNG and then reach to Cairns. Sounds easy - but we cross the doldrums in the Northern and Southern hemispheres and run a few reef systems en route. I will be doing the trip with my mate Nigel, the chap who illustrated 'Multihull Seamanship Illustrated'. We all need good friends who will drop everything and come sailing. Updates when I can enroute!