but not without dramas!!
Tuesday 12th June 2007

The mast was assembled in Queensland by All Yacht Spars and transported down by truck along with a man (Zam) to finish rigging it and stand it on the boat.
Unforunately when Zam unpacked the mast, spreaders and bits and pieces he realised half the wires were missing. No back stays, no D2s...No way the mast can go up without them!
After a phone call back to his boss it was decided that they would fly the missing pieces down to us on a Virgin Blue flight. The flight was due to arrive at 1.30pm but it was late of course. We picked the parcel up a bit after 2.30 and raced back to the marina. For a job that I was told the night before was going to take 'the best part of a day' we now only had 2 hours to do before the sun went down!!
Needless to say it wasn't finished and with Zam heading down to Melbourne that evening we had no choice but to have another company finish the rigging the following day (not at our expense luckily)