Back to the day (and sometimes night) job after the (excitement) of the 2-handed RB&I race. And guess what? I'm enjoying myself more working than I was, supposedly, taking some R&R. It's one Hell of a lot more varied and stimulating.

Now it's all over, I've had time to reflect on the experience and to report on what worked and what didn't.

Finished at 10:13:40.

Not far to go now. We're 5 miles dead downwind of the western entrance to Plymouth Sound, then it's only a couple of miles to the finish. We suspect that Knight's Challenge will have finished by now and guess that Resolute must be very close to finishing. We almost caught them in the night but they [...]

After 20 days sailing we're still within 20 or so miles of Resolute and Summer Bird. Knight's Challenge is further ahead. However things didn't go well for us in the early part of today. We got on the wrong side of a wind-shift, which put us behind and then we missed the tidal gate at Portland, whereas our competitors snuck through. Humphhhhh! ETA Plymouth some time tomorrow morning.

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