RMYC, Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, UK. Wednesday 1 June 2016.

It was lovely to catch up with Helen and Richard in their gorgeous house in Fort Lauderdale for a couple of days. I hadn’t seen Helen since the year we had together in Australia in the 70s. Many thanks. Bordered a Virgin Atlantic flight for London on 21 May arriving back exactly a year to the day of my departure from Portland. Home for a few days and thanks to my neighbours Carlo and Fiona, Paul and Hannah and Suzanne for looking after things in West Stafford.. Pisces arrived into Southampton Western Dock 102 on Sunday night and I caught the train up to collector her on Monday. But the crane broke down so it was not until a wet and windy Tuesday morning that she was unloaded and I motored round to Ocean Village marina and met up with the Odessy, Trick and Braveheart crews in the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. Up at dawn raising sails and a quick but rather gloomy passage back to my mooring in Poole Harbour in a northwesterly force 5 to six. Phew, home at last.

My highlights:

Helen, Richard and Fizz in Fort Lauderdale.

MV BBC Nile in Southampton

Unloading Pisces.

A long way down by rope ladder

Trick in Ocean Village Marina

The Solent's Red Funnel Ferry

RMYC at the end of the trip