I had a chat with our daughter last night - the last one before they sail out for Cape Town tomorrow. It's all change for her - some new crew members coming onboard, others have left, there's a new skipper and a new shift routine, not to mention a new sailing experience. Skipper Greg had a back problem on the previous leg and so he is missing out this leg in order to rest a bit, and hoping to join back in from Cape Town. He's been temporarily replaced by Skipper Dale. I hope Greg gets better soon - a back problem on board a racing yacht cannot be a good experience!
Mhairi and I were chatting about what we'd do once she arrives in Cape Town and we meet up with her. I was reminiscing about all the places we went and the things we did when last there in 2001 with John's parents. I talked about the Boschendal Pique Nique and the family races we did on the lawn afterwards. Funnily, she didn't remember anything about it, so I sent her this picture as a reminder. Her grandad Sandy looks to have given up a little! ;-)
It's not a good picture, but full of good memories (for me at least!). Photography was definitely more difficult then, with no touching up. I don't do a lot of editing of photos, but it's good to be able to straighten an image and crop a bit - so I fixed this one a little bit before posting, but you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!
Ditto re the cropping and straightening of photos! Still a wonderful shot and memory. A lot has changed in Boschendal since then, you should go back and take a look ;-)
These older photos are so precious! How much fun it will be when you and your daughter will see each other in Cape Town! Interesting narrative about her race. I imagine it is not an easy thing to change procedure and Skipper in the middle of the race.
I have quite a few "good memory" photos like this too. Some are able to be repaired and others just contain a good memory without becoming a good shot. But they are such a treasure to look at. I hope it's smooth sailing with the new changes and that the wind carries them safely to the next port.
How good to have these 'older' photos - they are still treasure really and perhaps the stories are more meaningful as we had such a limited number of them.
And wonderful to look forward to meeting up with Mhairi at the end of the next stage.
Such a lovely memory…..it’s funny how we can’t remember stuff we did as a child sometimes then as we get older we can remember loads! I did wonder how Mhairi would feel about setting off on the next leg….shes obviously enjoyed it & raring to go again! Bring it on!!
I need a straightener & I crop too.
And wonderful to look forward to meeting up with Mhairi at the end of the next stage.