Was a brilliant two weeks! Couldn't of asked for more.

I keep going to pump water out of my tap with the footpump and have random thoughts pop into my head saying "should we be tacking now". haha

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Hope you all come to the gathering and sign up for training weekends next year!

Cheers to the staff too!!

Hope to see you all soon

Yes It was amazing and brilliant and incredibly cool!!!!!
I still feel like I should be going to the 'head' and helping in the galley (not that I did alot of that)
'Sigh' but mostly I am back to normal apart form waking up in the night thinking that I am on watch!!
Cant wait for November and the gathering !!! hoping to see everyone again soonXx.

Hi Dean - saw your message so thought I'd say hello - glad you had such a good time on Challenge - what was the best bit?
Pam

Hi Pam!

Good to hear from you! How have you been?

I think the best bit was leaving the Westman Islands and heading over to Iceland, the swells were HUGE!

To top it off i was stowing the fenders and mooring lines away and every 5 seconds i would end up floating in mid air for a second because of the swells!
Never felt so ill before in my life! But the experience was amazing

I used to be really scared ti see rough conditions like that, even if they were half as bad and i was standing on dry land!

We got to have a go at everything as well like leading watches, leading sail changes/hoists/reefs, doing the daily checks and other bosuny stuff, being in charge of navigation etc..

I think we all felt like we had a really important role as we got involved in literally everything!

Sounds fantastic - hope you are all coming to the gathering - would be great to see some pics / video of the trip.

Definitely, i think most of us are all going!

see you there

I'm well gutted its over It was actually such a great trip and everyone onboard was great ;D

I'd love to do another trip like that tbh!

Ohh and the gathering now that will be a laugh we can listen to some music if ye catch my drift x