Testing for Hobart

Hi everyone,

The clock is ticking and its two days to go before the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on the 26th. Our latest batch of new sails have arrived, it's a gorgeous day in Sydney and we are going out for a sail in the harbour to put our Supermaxi through its paces.

Follow us along our journey at Big Boat Racing and www.youtube.com/bigboatracing

Ludde

Off to Geelong

Off to Melbourne today to see Dom ride in an International equestrian event and then for 3 days of a teambuilding/leadership event in Geelong with the boat and team.

It will be great to get on the water again.

Well, the race is over and we did not get past organised chaos. We had to drop the main before the start due to loose battens, which lead to the jib being hoisted in the wrong track/wrong halyard, so that next sailchange had to be a slow, bareheaded change.

A comedy of errors that in the end robbed us of any real chance to challenge, as we went from plan A to plan Z in the end. Thats how it goes, but funnily this race was more enjoyable for me than even winning in 2004.

Life is all about passion, and if you hit a wall, as I did in 2004/2005, then even winning is not as much fun as being out there for the right reasons. It is also doing what you do with people you enjoy, and this was a crew consisting of really nice guys, not implying that the previous were not. It is just so that you need both passion and good guys to share the adventure with.

More on this later.

4 days to go to the start. Status has changed from disorganised chaos, to organised chaos. I just hope we will be just and simply 'Organised'.