OK, computer issues and with one swift move, I just lost the post that I had done.  To explain all.  Charger on Surface with all pics no longer wants to work. Computer is being sent home to get fixed so will greet you in Rio with new adventures.  Until then have fun and remember to donate!!!

TEAMability in San Antonio is working to raise $10 per mile to beat us to RIO.  That means they need your support and help to raise $59,980 to beat us there.  Soooo, go to the donate page and help them out!!!!  Make a difference in a severely disabled child now! Continue reading →

Well now that you have followed the journey here I will tell you what I have been up to.  Since I have been to London several times I have not been to some of the usual local sites to check out.  Being here at St. Katherine’s Docks has been great as we are right by the Tower of London and the Tower bridge.

Here we are at sundial right by docks 1st night. Tower Bridge in background and Jen up front.

One day I will learn to take selfies.  Just give me time to come into the present generation. Continue reading →

This is a bit more of my adventure on the upper part of the boat.

Just hanging on and taping where chafe line (a covering so that the line will not wear through) should go.

Doing a bit of holding on and down to next possible chafe point

Continue reading →

Still trying to catch up with myself.  Glad there is a Starbucks right by the boat though I wish they did not close at 8pm.

OK this is weird posting, but have a brother and sister living in Seguin! Hi Riley and Sandy and family

Trip to London with the boats was much fun.

Helping each other get lifejackets ready. Amazing we do not even move boat from one dock to next without our lifejackets.

It started with a practice on how we will be doing the parade out of St. Katherine’s Docks in London on the 30th.  Incidentally there maybe coverage on early morning NBC show this coming Sunday of the beginning of the race start. Continue reading →

Here’s the target start and arrival times for each leg, including the London-Rio leg starting August 30 (download the PDF version.).

Five days until start! Here are three ways that friends and fans can our team (ClipperTelemed+) during the Clipper Race.

Track the race live

You can access the most up to date information on the boats’ positions via the Race Viewer, which is updated every three hours  and will be active as soon as the race starts on 31 August.  During the 2013-14 race, the Race Viewer received more than a million page views.

Race Viewer goes live Aug 31, 2015

Get daily updates

The Skipper’s blog and crew blog with photos will be posted on the website daily on our ClipperTelemed+ team page. Every day each skipper and team will post their experiences,  photos and videos while racing the world’s oceans.

Create your own virtual race

In addition to tracking the fleet as they sail around the world, you create “sail” alongside the teams and test your skills in the Virtual Clipper Race Game. More than 60,000 people played the Virtual Clipper Race during the previous edition of the game, with one player making the transition from virtual sailor to real sailor and will sail the Leg 6 of the Clipper 2015-16 Race. The game will launch on August 31 –  click here to get started.

Race alongside the teams with the Virtual Race Game.

Here are a few more Gosport pictures!

Learned a new way to stand against the rig and support myself up there. Now I can take more pictures and do the rig check better.

More boats going out to sail!

Saw this at the fair in Portsmouth. We couldn’t get 6 of us to commit to play. I was tempted, but it just looked like a chance to get seasick!

OK, I am off to class!

My camera, computer and me are having a contest to see who can confuse the other the most.  I am gaining in this competition and have some more to share with you before I have to go to a class from 8:30 to 5 today.  What is with that??

It rained most of yesterday and I got soaked on adventure with Nick to get our Vietnamese visas.  But it was great fun as we then just rode the bus around to see the city.

Back to Prep week…..

View of boats from top of mast rig check

Skipper Diane checking to make sure I am still up there with her. A teaching moment for her.

Ryan, Bosun, doing the winch clean job.  Glad he got that job!

hummmmm, what goes where?

Oh, you use a chart. Brian is this how you do it at work?

This pic is for Fred S. and Fred L. Which one wants the job?
Me, I am just trying to figure out where this boat sails with that keel.

Keel is behind the lift.  will try for a better picture of this.

This is better! It was hiding from me.

Off for now, more later!

Well this was a definite amazing adventure of WORK, WORK, and WORK.  So I will put in some pictures and explanations as there are no words to describe.

This we call milking the lines

You tie line to stable bar on dock and then tie something to the line to squeeze it and pull it hard down the dock.  The intention is stretch the outer layer of line over the inner core to eliminate stretch (I think).  Anyway, we would pull those lines til we had some excess of outer over an empty core area.  Then we would put a needle in the last of core area and then do a bit of whipping on the end of core area.  We did 16+ of those and guess what.  They are not short lines.  I believe that if I had my fitbit on I would have done more than 15,000 steps each day.  I became known as the “How many lines are you going to have to milk person”. Continue reading →

Last remaining adventures on Level 4 were some games when anchored between boats.

One was thinking up questions and asking over the VHS.  Nik really got into it and asked lots all with the same answer.  Actually I think he just liked to say over and do the call from the boat.  Questions like: What is the total amount of these currencies in US? One bill with George Washington, one Abe Lincoln and one with Andrew Jackson?  And the answer is….$26.  Actually every question that Nik  came up with had the answer of 26.  It had to be because our boat was CV26.  Now, how many questions can you come up with that has the answer of 26??? Continue reading →