Far East tour comers to an end.

Firstly, apologies for the lack of information to date, this was due to
some technical issues this end, hopefully this has now been resolved.
We are now on day 14 of our passage from Qingdao in China to San
Fran, a passage that has not been without incident!!
We were delayed 2 weeks in leaving China due to lack of a mast so we are
now playing catch up with the rest of the fleet. Just after we left
Qingdao we started the brand new water maker only to find that it wasn't
working, our only option was to put into Yokohama and fill up jerry cans
with water - water rationing is now in place and Tony and I have
constructed a rain water collection system out of sail cloth, cable ties
and a funnel - I knew Ray Mears would come up trumps eventually!!
Since then we have had a fire in the generator which has rendered that
useless so we are now relying on the engine to charge up the batteries.
We are taking the crossing with caution since our new rig has not really
been tested and looking at the Californian boat which has been demasted
this would seem to be sensible.
Hull & Humber lost their skipper due to a compound fracture of the Tib &
Fib and one of the crew of California had to be taken off board with a
serious head injury!!
At 02.00 last night we fouled our prop with some old fishing nets so the
engine is now out of acton until we can put someone in the water to laer
the debris!
Apart from these mishaps life continues and spirits are high.