Almost ready to go!

Karen and I have worked over the weekend to load almost everything we need, with only our fresh food and valuables to be loaded on Wednesday evening.

We completed a few last modifications including a new drawer for cutlery etc, and a new steering pedestal front panel with fitments for the cockpit table.

We have also added some additional safety gear, including a 406mhz EPIRB which should see our emergency signal picked up within 15 minutes, if we are ever unfortunate enough to need it.

Our list of safety equipment includes the folowing general items located around Tiburon:

- 406 mhz EPIRB
- 2 fire extinguishers
- PFD 1 lifejackets (traditional for Mark and auto inflate for Karen), with crotch straps
- a restraint hareness each with crotch straps, to prevent us falling overboard (only worn depending on conditions)
- high volume bilge pump with two auto switches (for redundancy) and manual overide
- fire bucket
- 2 anchors and rodes
- life ring
- no liferaft but we do carry an inflatable dinghy (which is always kept inflated)

In our "grab kit" which is ready if we have an emergency we carry:

- 121.5 mhz personal EPIRB
- set of flares
- v-sheet
- signalling mirror
- handheld compass
- handheld GPS
- and other survival gear such as sunscreen, spare water etc.

As we go on we will let you know what navigation and communication equipment we will carry.