Dawn Chorus - Log Day 8 Bereaved and Becalmed...

Devastating news today - my mother died suddenly at her home in Ireland. I am literally all at sea, adrift in the middle of the ocean without a puff of wind, and I won’t be able to get home for her funeral. Heartbroken. Makes the lumpy start, rope around the rudder incident, wrestling with untried sails and worries about progress pale into insignificance… Fair winds to all… Dawn