The delivery run is done, with all the boats now on show in St Katharine Dock by Tower Bridge. It was a great sight, seeing us all depart from the Solent and we soon got into our watch systems, the Clipper Race Office set out a race route for all 12 yachts involving across Channel trip to the coast on France. Unfortunately, we made fairly slow progress from Gosport to London due to light winds, and sometimes due to the direction of tide we were going backwards! But this gave me plenty of time to have a bit of fun getting to know my other crew members; sharing interesting facts about ourselves and doing pub quizzes, on one watch we set up circuit training stations, one doing squats, another press ups, then on the coffee grinders etc. From an outside perspective it would have probably been a very strange sight! But we all had fun.
On Friday we made our way up the Thames, which was an exciting experience, passing famous sites such as The Thames Barrier, Millennium Dome, Greenwich and Tower Bridge, as well as seeing the London skyline, and arriving to a great welcoming party of people at the dock. After the deep clean of the boat a few of us went out for drinks in London before I caught an early train on the Saturday morning back to Yorkshire for 4 days, seeing family and friends who are not able to make it to London next week and having a final check of any kit that I will need to take on the boat.
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