So Ulysses isn't due to be delivered until September 2010 and the wait is killing us.  After a fabulous weekend at the Moreton Bay Seawind Regatta (thanks again Andrew and Sonja) where we met some of the wonderful people from our new "family" (that's what Richard said in his letter and we'd have to agree, from what we experienced) I happened to be in Sydney the following week, so a spare day saw me borrowing a family members car and heading down to Woolongong to inspect the Seawind facilities (note to self ; next time take the Bulli Pass!)  Finally found the place (York Road is curently a constrution site, so me spying a big shed with a rather large, white catmaran sticking out of it was fortuitous) and was given a very detailed tour of the facilities by Graeme.  Whilst there we decided to go through the options list to select our fabrics and colours and I learnt what B O A T really means - Bring On Another Thousand....

But it'll all be needed, I'm sure.  Well that's what I was telling Ruth when I got home.

Methinks this 10 month wait could prove to be rather expensive.......