ORCV Long Distance Seminars and M2V.

Shout to the top!

Was how Paul Weller's Style Council saw it and you can see that again, right HERE, right now. Very cool stuff indeed.

So then, after Angus Fletcher won the 12 month subscription from Tidetech on Tuesday, it seemed fitting to have his boat, Tevake II, shouting from the top of a wave. Pic © to and courtesy of Steb Fisher.

It was in All over bar the shouting, that we mentioned someone will be waxing on lyrically after receiving this prize (which'll be me) and it seems only fitting that the prize from our Tidetech friends went to Angus, as he is the studious type of Navigator. Accordingly, this new tool is bound to be very well used, indeed.

"It's a very generous contribution from Tidetech and much appreciated. It's a marvellous excuse to get the HF organised to download data, so we can have Tidetech running at its full potential for the Melbourne to Vanuatu race", said Angus. "Their package looks very comprehensive and it will certainly be an extremely useful tool for races later in the year, particulary Sydney Hobart, which we plan to do on the way home from Vanuatu (just as we did in 2006). There's no doubt that the best time to do that other race to Hobart, is when you've got to go past Sydney on your way home from somewhere."

This is Angus, in the dark jumper and light stripes, paying strict attention, whilst receiving instruction from Roger Wale during the suturing session a little while ago.

Tidetech's Penny Haire makes a pretty clear statement of it all.

Penny details the situation on the route to Vanuatu. Thank you for preparing such a comprehensive presentation...

With colours like this, this particular slide was always going to get a viewing, but underneath it is some very cool stuff indeed.

As a complete, but very quick aside, Robyn Brooke spent part of the session on provisioning and came armed with samples, which was always going to be a hit.

And then here's the actual bread, ready to eat - which did happen!

This is a Hungerbuster pack - as modelled by Linda.

And this is the food that came out of the Easyfoods pack...

Nick Grogan, from Easyfoods, supplied the samples you see and talked about his product. Nobody went home hungry, which is always a good thing. BTW, Nick and Co provided the food for a certain teenager who was tickled pink to get around the globe on her own, just recently.

Angus Fletcher receives his access codes for his 12-month free subscription to Tidetech, from Tidetech's Penny Haire.

It seems very appropriate that to finish off the entire ORCV Long Distance Offshore Seminar Series, we give a big thank you to Greg, Penny and the entire Tidetech team for their support, efforts and involvement. We look forward to having you onboard as a regular ORCV partner - Cheers.

By John Curnow