The rain is on

After arriving in Palma I left the airport in style ridding in a landy 110 with no doors and a lot of bolted on extra parts, pulled into marina moll vell, threw my bags in the boat, unplugged and went straight for puerto banus. I am now much more akin with the boat and keen to get on the voyage. Tosh (the skipper), bryony (our hostess and tosh's soon to be wife) and myself have had a great time here including a dinner at the owner's house and a look around the garage containing some rare motors. Next stop is Gibraltar for a morrison's shopping trip and some new sunglasses since I left mine in the back of a taxi in hamburg

The info

More can be seen here:
The Atlantic crossing http://www.worldcruising.com/arc/
The world voyage http://www.oysteryachts.com/worldrally/

Pre beginning

It's one week until I leave for Palma to join the boat where we won't be hanging about and heading for Grand Canaria for the start of the ARC heading for Saint Lucia. Keep looking here for updates, photos and video from my adventures on the trip and the Oyster World Rally on this route http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=204095977975343202179.0004add5c473657d33cc6&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=6&ll=11.178402,-49.921875&spn=102.165461,234.84375&z=1&source=embed