Just after I came down to South Georgia I learnt that Joel Verutti one of the Moore 24 fleet ‘elders’ died from a brain tumour. My brother and I have raced in the Moore fleet for the five plus years on our boat Flashman (the blue boat in my blog header). We have not been that competitive and unfortunately with my work schedule and Daniels growing family we have not been sailing with the fleet in the last two years however, the Moore ‘family’ is a pretty tight knit group. Joel was always more than willing to give Daniel and I advice about how to get more out of our boat and really was a truely corinthian sailor a pleasure to race against and get beaten by!

In an attempt to help Joel’s wife and young daughter to build a new life without him the fleet have got an auction going at http://www.moore24.org/auction. Many of the items are Moore 24 specific however, there are quite a few fun things whether you are a sailor or not including diamond earrings, travel luggage, dinner at a fire station, beach houses to stay in, tech support services etc. I scratched my head for a while to think about what I could possibly put up for auction and the end result is a talk about living and working in South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. So go to the site and see if there is anything that appeals to you it really is for a great cause. Thanks for reading.