Whales in the port. We were doing our electronics calibration in the quiet waters of Cape Town port alongside the big container ships, tugs and such like when two lovely big Southern Rights came by to say hello. Big animals. We could have done the tensile strength tests at the same time i.e. seeing if the keel can withstand hitting a large object at sea.
Helicopter photo shoot of the boat on Saturday. I'll be on the boat not the chopper.

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Anonymous said…
Wow, whales in port and getting photographed from a chopper, all in two days. How cool as that??!!
Lots of thoughts going your way. Hope you're out doing the test today...and won't be able to read this til much later!

ola & dave xoxo
8:59 am
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