Guestbook

Name: Wade L. Smith III
Location: Victoria Texas
Message: Keep that smile on your face today Charl. You are getting closer to your beautiful family every day!! See you in Palacios and have a Very Happy Birthday!!!!

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Name: Sharon & Dave Ragle
Location: Palacios, Texas
Message: Happy Birthday, Charl. November 5th was a perfect day to be born. Jacob's Ladder is a great birthday gift to yourself if you live through it. Hugs from home.

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Name: Bev, Mom, Sharleen and Gideon
Location: Waiting at home!
Message: Happy Birthday! We miss you and love you and wish you God's richest Blessings on this your special day. You are in our prayers, always.

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Name: Marie
Location: East London
Message: Let me be the 1st to wish you happy & prosperous "1st-ever, 44th birthday, solo silent-voyager birthday" on St Helena tommorow!! What a life time experience!! Proud of you

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Name: Dave & Eileen Elley
Location: Seattle
Message: Another safe landfall! Well done Charl. Don't get stuck there like Napoleon! Home by Christmas? How it seems to have flown by, but I get it feels like a lifetime since you were home now. What an experience!

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Name: Zakie Pretorius
Location: Kaapstad
Message: Hallo Charl

Dit was lekker om 'n bietjie saam met jou te braai & 'n paar vitamiene B's (biere) te geniet. Sien jy het veilig op St Helena aangekom. Sterkte en voorspoed met die res van die rit. Ons almal bewonder jou vir die moed en durf wat jy openbaar om so alleen te vaar.

Zakie

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Name: Marie
Location: East London
Message: Well done! Enjoy the break! Lots of good luck and love from us all at home.

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Name: Nico
Location: Suurbraak, RSA
Message: Jy laat waai ou pêl! Mooi so! Jou lewe klink opwindend - myne voel soos 'n daaglikse roetine. Ek is nou jammer dat ons so min tyd saam spandeer het toe jy hier was. Sterkte vorentoe.

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Name: Pa
Location: EL RSA
Message: Wel gedaan, jy is seker gedaan. Ek is gedaan! Mooi so, ontspan lekker, reel vir jouself n lekker verjaarsdag paartie!!
Baie liefde,
Pa

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Name: Pa
Location: EL RSA
Message: Wel gedaan, jy is seker gedaan. Ek is gedaan! Mooi so, ontspan lekker, reel vir jouself n lekker verjaarsdag paartie!!
Baie liefde,
Pa

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Name: GILLIAN MORRIS
Location: KIDD'S BEACH, SOUTH AFRICA
Message: Well done to my very special cousin! So pleased you are on terra firma again.
Much love and many blessings to you and your amazing wife. How about writing your memoirs, Bev?

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Name: SYLA
Location: HOUSTON
Message: STERKTE OU MAAT ,KOM BRAAI NOU !!!

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Name: Fanie Ferreira
Location: Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
Message: Hi Charl, Wat 'n wonderlike ervaring! Ons is baie trots op jou en jammer om so laat by jou aan te sluit! Ek sien jy is op koers na die Bermuda Triangle - hou links van al die "aliens"! Ons hou jou dop en sterkte. Baie liefde Fanie, Gwen en kinders

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Name: Sharon Bauer
Location: Rustenburg
Message: You are amazing and Gerrie was a very close friend of ours at Olifantsnek Yacht Club in Rustenburg. Just want to say that he would have been proud of you. So are we. All the best from the sailors in Rustenburg.

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Name: CHRISTO DE VILLIERS
Location: RUSTENBURG
Message: HALLO OUBOET JA EK WENS EK KON JOU AFSE IN DIE KAAP MAAR NOU JA DINGE WAS BIETJIE FYN GESNY .EK DINK BAIE AAN JOU EN STERKTE MET JOU VAART ;ILL RIDE AND WHIP THE WHITE HORSES OF THE SEA LIKE I DID ON WHISKY ! LAAT DIT JOU AANSTERK. LIEFDE GROETE CHRISTO

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Name: Susan Staak (31 October 2004)
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
Message: Hi Charl, Thinking of you. Take care.
Keeping watch of your progress.
Love, Susan xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Name: Pa
Location: EL
Message: Wow, that was quick! Back in the tropics again! 1000nm in 6days, thats 7knots average for the trip. That's your best leg by far. Stay safe, Baie liefde, Pa

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Name: Cindy Unger
Location: Inez, TX
Message: Have enjoyed keeping up with your journey. I keep it plotted in my classroom at Industrial Elementary West for the kids to see. May God bless you and be with you on your way home.

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Name: Mike Dovey
Location: Pretoria
Message: Good Luck Cousin.It's the final stretch and you'll be home by Christmas.I'm proud to know you.Hang in there Bev.Not long now.

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Name: ice_nine
Location: usa
Message: God Speed, you can do it.

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