Departure

06:00UTC 05/08/07 50'21.7N 004'07.8W

Here we are in Plymouth, preparing breakfast before leaving for Tenerife. Just a couple of hundred yards away are the Mayflower Steps, where the pilgrims departed and where we picked up our crew yesterday. Round the corner is Plymouth Hoe, where Drake finished his game of bowls before leaving to fight the Spanish Armada, and everywhere are historic tokens of departure and adventure.

I went to the chart agent yesterday to buy a couple of charts for the voyage. There's something romantic about buying a big Admiralty chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the coasts of France and Spain across to the Caribbean. We'll be plotting our course on that one all the way.

Time to get the weather forecast and get ready to cast off. Bye for now, Nick.

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