On Monday we readied Mission Performance for the motor sail back to Gosport. Having said more goodbyes we slipped lines at 3 pm out of St Katharine Docks and down the Thames. Ten of us were on board; Myself, Matt, Kate, Derek, Ben, Richard, Mike (leg 5), Ross (1), Jo (1-4) and Karen (who works for Mission Performance). We passed the White Cliffs of Dover and the Clipper training grounds in the Solent where it all began for me a year ago, arriving into Gosport marina to a small, but select band of people who work for Clipper to welcome home CV23 and all the other warriors who had done their jobs so well. One last trip to the pub and one last night on the boat, before the final full day of deep cleaning that was to be done.
On the Wednesday before I headed back to Yorkshire, I went round to say goodbye and thank some of the Clipper Ventures team who work in the offices, without their assistance I would not have been able to achieve any of this adventure! Then more tearful goodbyes, before the drive home. The fields were the same as a year ago with the corn being cut, nothing seemed to have changed, except as I got nearer to home there were lots of yellow bikes parked up along the village roadsides; Have I missed something in Yorkshire?
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| Our arrival back into Gosport |
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| Justin Taylor, Race Director (far left) with some of the Team who make dreams come true! |
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| Goodbye to the Skipper |
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| Yorkshire |
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