Back on the water

I fly to Sydney 5pm Christmas Day for the 1pm Boxing Day start of the 66th Sydney-Hobart.

I figured if I can drive again, I might ease back into some offshore racing.

Bowman on a Syd-Hobart entry (Geomatic Joker, sail number M9000) probably isn't easing back in after five years out of my sea boots ... but do 'bucket list' items get scheduled for year 3 of some 5 year plan when my learning is that there is in fact fuck all guarantee of any year 3 or 4 or 5?

I think not.

Hoping to make it this time: 2004 on Outlaw turned horrendous, the experience from Gabo Island to our pullout point 70 miles south, head into 5 metre chaos, is best described as a 16 hour car crash.

And should it be the same again or worse, wouldn't miss it for the world ... this is living.

Bass Strait hurts.
But it's hospitals and couches that kill.