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Off to The London Boatshow

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Phyllis and I have not been to a major boatshow since the winter of 2000/01 that we spent living on “Morgan’s Cloud” at St. Katharine’s Marina in London. So it seems like it is about time, particularly since we still have some major acquisitions to make for the boat including a plotter and a new dinghy—nothing like being able to poke and prod before laying serious coin down.

It will also give us a chance to see various people that we do business with but have never met face to face, as well as rendezvous with old friends from Norway. Colin Speedie will be there with his new Ovni on the Alubat stand, so it will be interesting to see the boat and finally meet Colin who has made such a great contribution to this blog over the last few months.

The upshot of all this is that the Blog will be quiet for the next three weeks or so, unless Colin is feeling inspired to post something in-between handling the million problems and details involved in putting a new boat together.

When we get back I will continue with the very well received heavy weather series (it has just about doubled the traffic to the blog). My current thinking is that there will be at least five more posts:

• Our new backup storm survival system and why we chose it.
  
  
• Our deployment and retrieval system.
  
  
• Details, details—all the little changes we have made to “Morgan’s Cloud” over the years to make her easier and safer to handle in heavy weather. Lots of pictures with this one.
  
  
• Our strategy if we get caught on a lee shore in storm conditions—heaven forbid.
  
  
• And finally, unless I think of something else to blather on about, wrap-up and conclusions.
  

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