Shall I worry just yet?

Hmm, so last week the top half of the mast broke away from the rest of the Western Australia2011.com boat and I felt a little uneasy with the idea that this is the same boat I'll be joining in only a few short weeks. Today a mild form of panic has set in upon reading that the whole of the mast has made a bid for freedom from the Durban boat.  How many more?

I am endeavouring to calm myself with the reassuring thought that WA2011 will have a new mast and rigging when I join it. . . . . on the flip side Qingdao won't when I join her and that's for the part of the race that is scaring me enough which to cross the Atlantic. I mean, there is a whole lot of water out there and I still haven't managed to psych myself up to actually thinking about being on it and how long it's going to take and, and, probably lots of other irrational thoughts.

I can't back out now, too many people have given sponsorship, but oh deary me, I am feeling very unhappy about the whole thing.