ORCV Melbourne to Vanuatu (M2V)

More Four - Thanks Karen.

You can have Jeremy back for a little while.

Are you confused out there? Don't be. Four appeared on the site back on June 8 and if you go back there, it will explain a lot. However, the quick encapsulation was that it would be four days henceforth when Karen would in fact marry Countdown Jeremy. Below are the pics to prove it all. We have the shooter, Melissa Prior from Mount Gambier to thank for the images and the ability to run them here on the site. Cheers Melissa.

Now Karen probably thought she had to get very serious and lay down the law, but alas, she gets many more days now to bring Jeremy into line.

Out amongst the vines at the winery where they got married.

At the old Coonawarra train station.

Now of course Karen can have Jeremy back for just a little while, as Gusto is not able to make the M2V start today. Never fear, however, as Team Gusto are at it and have their eyes now firmly fixed on having a red hot go at the Melbourne to Stanley at the end of October and then the mighty Westcoaster at Xmas. If I can, I'd like to mention the M2G on 15 September, as a worthy starting point, too.

Countdown Jeremy got his name as a direct result of his original email back when it was 299 days to go to the 2010 M2V. He's just advised me, that as of today, Sunday July 4, there are 118 Days to Stanley, 176 until Hobart and 1464 days until the 2014 M2V - for the serious planners out there.

'The amount of effort put in by Brian and all the crew is a credit to them all. I am truly appreciative of the efforts made by Peter Baker from The Shiping Registration Office, for his help in getting Gusto registered as an Australian ship. Also to Peter Coleman, John Duffin and Susan Veal at YA for their efforts on Friday - John was phoning the numbers through, as we got them and Susan was running the numbers, as she got them. They certainly droped everything to assist us. I cannot really express how much I owe them for the extra effort they put in for us', Jeremy wanted to say.

Here's to the upcoming races!

By John Curnow