Day 2.
Days remaining: 232

There's a moth in me kitchen what am I gonna do?!

(and a bike....... and Raspberries)

So here's where I am up to on Day 2. The hull of the new boat is taking shape - quite literally, with both sides are ready to glue together. The wing tubes are here now and I'll be sticking them together next.

I promised the overall plan of action so here is the first 3 months (as much for my benefit as anyone else's!) Each month has targets for Technical, Sailing, Diet and Exercise. Loose and in outline (I mean you don't really want to read my actual diary do you!!??)

November.

• Tech. Full on boat build. I've made the mouldings already (It's a prototype for a new boat.. I've been working on the tooling and setting up for production for a while by the way). Build the hull and start to assemble the wings. Draw up all the arrangements and start the CAD of the critical wand mech and rudder controls and get them somewhere near sending off for machining.
• Diet. Cut down on the wine and virtually no more beer* - not that I drink that much any more, but it's time to make a stand. Farewell favourite pubs!
  No more white bread* Cake* Choc Chip Cookies*
  No more cheese or other dairy/saturated fats*.
  Insert into diet, lots more fruit and veg and avoid processed meat
  - and I don't drink enough water so I need to work on that..
• Exercise. Light jogging/cycling to get these old joints moving again.  Lots of gentle stretching. Like a month long warm up.

*Christ, I sound like a right lard arse! I'm 74kg and 5' 7" I think that's an ok weight for mothing but I need power, flexibility and endurance, not belly fat. Not that I ever really needed that, I was, I admit, being lazy and kidding myself it was ok...

December.

• Tech. Ideally by the end of December, I'd like the boat, foils and rig all ready to go together, with maybe just the fitting out and control systems to put together...
• Diet. Christmas and New Year will be tough - but I should be able to keep the deadly sins to a minimum if I focus.
• Exercise. OK, so I'm going to try and jog 2 miles and cycle 4 miles every other day all month... Sure i'll miss a day here and there with work, but on average, that's my target.

January.

• Tech.  Boat launch target is 15 Jan 2014. 
• Sailing. (and what a great time I picked to start!) Once the boat is tested and reliable, the first month will just be getting into sailing moths again, getting comfortable in the boat, rigging, de-rigging, figuring it out again... and yup, knowing that the weather will usually delete half of the training days I want to put in out here in the East so I might need to head for Datchet or QMSC.
• Diet. By now i'll be pretty much where I want to be. Sat-Fats a thing of the past, and lots of fresh veg in my fridge.  I'll figure out a plan to maintain whatever feels like the right weight when I get there!
• Exercise. Tempted to put 'Join a Gym' but will leave that as TBC. Should be running and cycling about 30 miles a week and able to crank out the sit ups by now - It'll be the flexibility I need to work on - as the Navy Field Gun Trainer used to say - 'as supple as an arthritic Kit-Kat' ... so I might join a yoga class or something?! Should really get in the pool too... But I think my first month back in the boat will give me enough practice at my front crawl!

So that is the rough plan for the first 3 months, although we're already quite a way into the first one.... and I am pleased to say (as I put down a bowl of granola and pick up a notebook marked Top Secret..!) it's going to plan so far...

Daunted.  A bit.

D.