I've been a bit lax of recent

My blogging has been a bit slow coming over the past couple of months due to the appalling Internet but I see it as a luxury anyway so not a problem. Proteus has charged about and everyone has had a fantastic time including having the pleasure of the company of David Glen, the editor of yachting world who has been writing an article about the Oyster World Rally. Unfortunately I have broken yet another camera in a similar fashion to the first one. Both through death by water ingress. The good news is I have just a few hours ago purchased a new one in Heathrow airport so we are good to go again. I'm currently sat at the airport in Abu Dhabi waiting to fly on to Sydney and ultimately mackay to catch up with proteus and the rest of the fleet after taking a holiday back in England and spending a lot of time with my fiancée, Alice and the rest of my family which has been fantastic. I've also spent a bit of time on my both my cars which even though I haven't driven one of them for 3 years and the other for 10 months have consumed a fair chunk of money. The flight I've just had was 7 hours and my next one is 14 hours roughly with a smaller 2 hour flight to top it all off. I'm looking forward to getting back on the boat and cracking on with some sailing but it is always sad to say goodbye to family and friends. I'll try to get on the case some more with some good pictures and text to go with

Bora Bora with the Bloody Mary's party

I'm now in areas with very limited Internet so photographs are hard to attach and upload but I wish I could put some on that we took of the huge breaking waves on the outer reef on our arrival to Bora Bora! Finding the passage through the reef was easy as it was the only patch that wasn't exploding into white spray at a great height. Once through the passage we were once more protected from the vast Pacific Ocean and in tranquil waters again. The favourable option was to take a mooring at Mai Kai marina which is essentially a wall to tie against or on a buoy. Not to be put off though the restaurant there was brilliant for food, atmosphere and most evenings there was a fantastic band to listen or dance to. After a night at Mai Kai we moved inside the reef to an anchorage outside of the Hilton hotel where Bryony and Tim stayed ashore for a couple of nights and I stepped up the pace on board with some servicing and polishing.