Hi Gerry, we looked at this quite seriously and read Dick Allen's book "Sailing my Dream", which gives an excellent account of the Blue Water Rally. He did enjoy it but seemed to find the pressure of time, always having to motor or move on to keep up with the rally timetable. It is also rather expensive about Ł6000 when we looked at it. In his book Dick Allen felt a bit like the poor relation and had one of the smallest boats in the fleet but they do organise everything for you, visas etc., and will source parts if anything goes wrong. They also let you take a year out now and rejoin the next rally as it goes round, so I suppose it wouldn't be so pressured . We decided to do our own thing and hope to leave here in June.