Dear Friends of With Sails and I - John Here - I have just finished editing four sequences from over 200 hours of footage in order to try to raise finance to complete this journey. Its not easy sitting through that much footage, just to watch it takes a month and that’s a month of looking at yourself which is somewhat …challenging for the soul. The upside is I think we’ve been making something very funny and very compelling. We now have a great production company on board to help us on our way but more details of this later so as not to put them under too much pressure. Fingers crossed and thanks for sticking with us.

Another reason to write is I wanted to bring all of your attention to the incredible journey of one lovely man we met on our travels and that is Geoff Holt. Geoff got in touch and took us out for a day when he heard about our story and taught a few tricks. Geoff Holt is the first quadriplegic man to have circumnavigated Britain. (He broke his neck diving through a wave many years ago as a young sailor). He is currently crossing the f*****g Altantic in an adapted catarmaran. Sorry about the swearing but what a f**** **** S*** C*** nutter - I mean f*** s*** h** . I wanted to draw all of your attention to his blog which is this:

http://www.geoffholt.com/

His is currently in the middle of the Atlantic and his wind instrument is broken and his story is one to follow and all support would probably be welcome.

I hope you all have a splendid Christmas. More news soon. Best regards - John (and Richard)