Preparations for the Dieppe Dash 2012

We have been watching the weather forecasts almost every hour since Tuesday, and at the moment it's looking like a gentle (early) start from our berth in Newhaven with a fairly smooth sea state, a bit more wind mid-channel and similar on the French side.

coming back on Monday looks like good wind direction and speed, a bit choppier.

tonight is the last Skippers' Briefing at Brighton Marina Yacht Club, then back to Newhaven, to bed on Mahaskah.

See www.DieppeDash.com for more. It's a great way to do something for the first time, in company with many others, some are racing, others in a Rally from Newhaven Yacht Club, and othe bases on the South Coast.

Access from the cockpit!,
John cut through, so we have daylight on the engine.

Refuelling from the Fuel Berth, Newhaven













Also, we have had a new VHF DSC radio and GPS installed, (can't wait to play with it!), this means that we have a formal "call sign"  2 Foxtrot Oscar Quebec 4  if you want to know.
and something called an MMSI number, which you probably don't want to know.

I am now off to stow the gear.