Now that I’ve finally recovered from the weekend hangover(s), I can talk about what happened!

Not only am I sailing with my favourite skipper from training – Gaëtan Thomas – I seem to have ended up with a superb bunch of people (of course, I say that now, when I haven’t just spent five weeks living in close proximity). You can see our list of crew right here on Clipper’s team pages, which can also be filtered to show only circumnavigators; the lovely people (I have to say that because they’ll probably read this) I’ll be spending virtually a year with! We also have a bunch of excellent single-leggers (and multi-leggers) that I am sure I will miss once they are no longer aboard. In fact there was not one person I am not looking forward to drinking sailing with! ^{there was like eight  /s}

Gaëtan is also known as GT, which means we are also now team gin & tonic. Maybe time to re-purpose those water tanks in the bilge… and, since we do not yet have a team sponsor, anyone with contacts at Gordon’s for a sponsorship deal?

If you want to follow us already we have a team supporters page on Facebook, and in time regular blogs will appear on Clipper’s team page I linked above – and of course, here.

One other minor point mentioned at the crew allocation presentation is internet access from the boat; there’s no internet access per se but text-only emails will be not only possible but also reasonably-priced, so expect (in)frequent blog upates from mid-ocean!

Next up is our team-building weekend (drinking again) in mid-June, last training course end of July, then straight into boat preparation week (more drinking) and the delivery up to Liverpool for the race start week of events (i.e. drinking) in August.

I’m pretty excited now!