Sailing adventures of Elaine and Paul: 2 week count down to the exam

Back in Gibraltar after 2 week milebuilding. Learnt alot about boat handling in rough weather and night sailing. Spent our time practicing knots, identifying tankers by their light formation. We are tired mentally and physically right now but still having a good time. The tuition has been great from the instructors and each week our confidence builds. We move tomorrow onto the exam boat and will spend the next 2 weeks training to pass the exam - 11th February.
We have had some interesting and exciting experiences these last 2 weeks - long passages to Portugal on Josander, 4 attempts to get back to Gibraltar but the weather was so bad we had to use our bolt holes. Eventually we got the winds from the west and planned the passed to take advantage of the tides and we are now back - doing some serious damage to vodka and tonic. Unfortuately some damage was done to Josander main sail during a night storm, but we all handled the situation well, removed the sail and carried on............all good training. We are studying every spare minute we have - as failure isnt an option for us.