One of the greatest parts about the last race was the number of people we reached and connected with through the blog and the race, from new friends to old friends to total strangers. So if you know of anyone who might be interested in what we're doing, please share, and invite, and include...



The blog from our 2011 race can be found at www.teamciaobella.blogspot.com

Thursday 9 January 2014


BAM! Our email is up and running. Nothing trumps tenacity.


It has been a tedious process, but after much determination we have been able to make it work. Since Sunday's bad weather, our email communication has been down and we have been limited to texts and calls.

Have a drink after work to celebrate this momentous occasion. We'll be sharing a slab of dairy chocolate.

An important reason for restoring an email connection was the ability to receive weather files. Something that we haven't been able to download since Sunday.

An equally important reason has been that we can continue to share our adventure with you. We will send through the blog entries that were written over the past few days later today to get you all up to date. Dad will also be speaking on RSG tomorrow (Friday) between 7am and 8am tomorrow, so if you have a chance you should try tune in. Lastly, The Stig is also able to pass on your emails to us, so feel free to email teamciaobella@gmail.com.

7 comments:

  1. Onbekommerd9 January 2014 at 06:18

    Hi Ciao's and Bellans!
    Great to hear that you have managed to get the water out of the blogmachine or whatever has been the problem. Fortunately the tracker has remained active so we know where you are and it does not look bad!
    We'll have the prescribed beverage to celebrate when the sun reaches the yard arm!
    Hand & Lyn

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  2. Vivien Rossaak9 January 2014 at 06:38

    Welcome back!

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  3. BIGFISH9 January 2014 at 07:55

    Yipeee Glad you are back with us.
    At a wedding reception the master of ceremony asked all the married men must go and stand with the person who made their life worth it.....The poor barman was nearly trampled to death. kkkkkkk.

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  4. Unknown9 January 2014 at 12:27

    " Have a drink after work to celebrate this momentous occasion. "
    I am glad to report that Bennie and Susan Knoll joined us at sunset and we did it !!!

    Soos ons in Afrikaans se - " die boeing is oor" (you are allowed to have a "dop" ) will now be replaced by "Ciao Bella is online"

    :)

    Chris

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  5. Dina9 January 2014 at 15:42

    Well done....you are a great team!!! Keep on!!!

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  6. The Ratline10 January 2014 at 01:29

    Spinnaker naming - how about 'Julius' for the black and white - he will unite black and white and take you forward to your destination of wealth and prosperity !

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  7. Unknown11 January 2014 at 06:38

    Just as I was discharged from therapy there you were again. Now all the good work of two years has been brought to naught. I started screaming again a few days ago, they were able to control it with medication, but it's now got to the stage where even electrotherapy is not helping
    Why?? Are you doing this again just to aggravate my condition? Envy is a hard row to hoe and with a broken leg it becomes a matter of toil, toil pain and the rubble of a knee. But, it's all good that you're having a great time while us lesser beings drip and drool watching you go on your merry way
    I am really pleased that your daughter is going to end up as one of the great uneducated. Never mind the disinherited. She has space on the bench in Government Avenue she is able to share with the squirrels and other disadvantaged. The other children may fight over the hulk of Ciao Bella while the curses will be muted, one hopes
    Mike and Gill and fandambly, I truly hope you're having a ball and living the dream so many of us can only imagine. Having done a few thousand nauticals myself, I know the feeling of driving at 03.00 beneath a sky full of stars, shooting stars, satellites and moon city dwellers cannot see, even in their clearest minds' eye. The stillness and beauty of solitude at the wheel juxtaposed with the adrenalin pumping of a near-gale, surfing a following sea, living minute-to-minute right on the edge and depending on those you love and care about to get through it. The knowledge and satisfaction of understanding that they trust and count on you to do the same for them. There's nothing, nothing quite like it, and it has to be lived to grasp the profound effect it has on relationships
    To remark on envy on my part is actually understating the case! Since learning of your entry, again, I attempted to contact you before the start but, for the life of me, could neither remember your boats name or your own name, MIKE. So forgive me for that, but I'll just blame it on brain damage and the near-death experience in Feb last year, so that's all cleared up
    Take care Robinsons and get there and back safely
    Best wishes, Bryon Wittstock (The grumpy old man from Action Yachting)

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