An update:
"I want to thank this community again for reaching out to help us with extraordinary generosity over the last couple of weeks. Substantial donations enabled Given to get specialist care for her heart condition and both of us to remain in Almerimar so that she could be monitored while undergoing an essential change of medication.
"My own health needed urgent attention, too. And your help allowed me to begin a process that, as it turns out, will need to continue in Italy (where a reciprocal healthcare agreement with Australia will provide me some access to further testing).
"We need a little more help to tackle the more than 1,000 nautical miles that lie ahead of us. Our plan is to complete essential work on the boat this week, then leave Almerimar, finally, next weekend and shakedown Wrack (and ourselves) with a passage of around 160 nautical miles towards Alicante, where our son will join us to lend a hand on the long, open-water passage to Sicily and further west..."
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