We left the boat up in the garden for the kids to play with today which they did.
Two packages arrived this morning, spark plugs and our official Rally stickers from the Adventurists.

So when we get the car ...

Its finished……..Yes the Viking longboat is finally finished..

Today started with bad news, one of the bearings in the drive shaft had broken apart and lodged itself in to the CV joint…so Steve is ...

Me Seb and Klaus all met today to discuss the web site and catch up;

the forum should be up and running soon, and Klaus started to explain how ...

Frustration…… I hate Alloy wheels and Seb does equally.

These Stupid wheels have been a unforeseen problem for the last few days .

We thought yeah we’ll just change them over with steel wheels with...

Scrap yard again (I think they are getting sick of me now)
We were supposed to change the wheels over today with somebody so we could get their steel wheels and she has our Alloys.

I loosened off the bolts on the rear wheel then ...

Sore knuckles and a sense of satisfaction came from today.

I met up with Seb Today and we went to the scarp yard to retrieve the suspension from another Swift.

We broke a ratchet in our efforts to get ...

Much better  today I feel alive again and not like a zombie vampire with my Zoo flu.

Not much to report today as Seb went to Thorpe park and I had a family day and a barbeque with Genie and his family today.

Halfords sported some ...

I wasn’t very well today and woke up feeling worse than the last couple of days;

I have decided to call my illness ‘Zoo Flu’ therefore being a mixture of all the flu’s.

Today I mainly spent in a mixt of Bed and clearing the memory ...

Ouchhhhhh…..that’s how today started and went. It was Injection day again.

And I have a little fear of Needles…… yes….. yes  I know, ‘you woosey’ you may be thinking but even Superman has his kryptonite.

I was a very brave boy  but ...

Well Today went very well and very well indeed.

I was awoken to the constant sounding of text messages on my phone telling me ‘you’re on the Radio’ so I tuned in and there we were on the News so that was an excellent start.

Today I went to meet Jim at ‘ATS’ and ...

Today was an exciting day due to the fact that I went to see the people at ‘Isle of Wight Radio’ .

We discussed the Adventure that is about to be undertaken then recorded and interview as a bit of a taster before the Breakfast show 1 week before we leave. They seemed very interested with...

Next entry on the captain’s log…
Today was mainly spent catching up with Jamie and old friend who came to the island today and Seb went off to the Mainland for a climbing course that he was quite excited about.
I had Drill’s tonight at the Fire station which...

Well the meeting with Seb lastnight started with a few vodkas to get into the mood of coming up with great ideas , both of us have been so busy lately and had hardly any time to catch up so we kind of wanted ...

Some thing a bit physical was on the plan for today but once again started with ‘faire alerter’ going off and getting me out of bed.A house fire.
So after Break fast I lifted the Longboat off of the car and round into the garden  replaced the rope...

Today wasn’t very rally orientated  ,instead it started with my ‘Fire alerter’ going off at around 0900 this morning. Quickly followed a dash through the hall way and then a jump over the front fence and a full on sprint to the Rally car. In I jumped and ...

Newport Town centre today, it took me about an hour and a half to set up the longboat sail, information table and Tom bola table due to people showing interest in the rather adventurous looking concoction ...

Today was a slower paced day it started with a trip to the fire station to wash the Rally car in preparation for Newport town centre tomorrow. When I pulled into the station Another Fellow lover of Fire was there and had a problem with his car, the hose connector that flows to the radiator had snapped on the engine block.

Well here is the second day of the log,
Today’s Rally antics started with a near head on collision at the scrap yard and of all people it just happened to be Colin the guy who has sorted our Roof rack and helping us with the suspension.

Captains log 19th may in the team base  Town of East Cowes.
Well the log begins only a few days late so sorry to those who logged in earlier.