Julian Megson Ocean Ventures

In just a few hours I will be heading for Heathrow Airport for my flight to Horta in The Azores. It’s been a while since I have spoken about this so as a reminder, On Friday 29  I am taking part in a crewed non-stop 1200 nautical mile sail from The Azores to Portsmouth, England.  I join the voyage on the second leg of a Transatlantic sail and it is expected to take about 10 days or so to reach Portsmouth from The Azores.  This will give me valuable long haul sailing experience. It is one step further towards my dream of sailing single handed across the Atlantic Ocean and to show that despite having a disability, it is possible to live your dream.

So my bag is (just about) packed and I’m almost ready to go. I would probably have been ready a lot earlier if I hadn’t kept unpacking things to make sure I have everything. I guess that’s why lists were invented, anyway its a bit late now to have that bright idea.

This voyage is a charter organised by Ondeck who are providing four ‘Farr 65′ yachts which will be raced by a number of professional and amateur crew to Portsmouth. I don’t know which boat I will be sailing on as places don’t get allocated until we arrive in Horta.

If you do want to follow my progress then you can do the following;

1. Check which boat I am sailing on.  You can do that by looking at the crewlist for leg 2.
2. Check my current position on this map

I’m not sure if I will be able to update my blog whilst on the boat, but if that is possible be sure that I will be sending updates as often as I can.