Hi Subscriber,
I must confess I haven't touched the sewing machine this month. The month started with QuiltWest then we have been in Europe on "holiday".
I never know how much to put about our travels in these emails but as these trips are the inspiration for my future art they do have some relevance. (If you are not interested please scroll past the sailing photos then you will get to the textile related stuff!)
I have a big birthday coming up next year and we like to do something special to celebrate it. I never did get the memo about being more sensible as you get older so we have progressively got more adventurous as we ran out of ideas!
We went from swimming with whale sharks (fantastic but tame) to tandem sky diving (which was ok) and skeleton (like luge but head first which was fantastic). We couldn't think of anything and were going to settle for Everest Base Camp (ho hum) until we came across the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race!!
Being a kiwi growing up in Auckland, everyone was fascinated by the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. The kiwi sailors (especially Peter Blake) were national heroes and even if you had never sailed you would tune in for the daily updates on the radio from the skipper's about their progress. What they did seemed so impossible and to think now it is available to anyone....
If you have followed me for a while (as I made "Seeing Red") you will know we started sailing a mirror dinghy in 2018 so we could sail in the World Championships in Sydney.
That was a crazy thing to do and this is the "logical" next step!!
This trip to England was the first 2 weeks of training for the clipper race. We have to go back for another 2 weeks next year (probably July) and the race starts end of August next year. We are doing 2 legs. England to South America and around Australia (going below Tasmania). Actual dates and ports have yet to be released. If you are interested you can see more about the race here
