Fabulous, full day. Niki and I left the marina at 10am and sailed around the top of Prudence Island to East Greenwich. 3 hours of beating up wind towards Providence. We thumped along in 15 knots of clear wind with no sea state learning how best to trim the boat. We are starting to get a feel for her.

Stayed for probably less than an hour at the Brewers South Yard. Great place. Very helpfull guy on the dock. Decent bar at the site with good food and good air conditioning! We will be back.

Set out for a well deserved spinnaker run back home down the west side of Prudence Island. No sooner raised the A sail when the sea breeze Niki had forecasted filled in. Dropped the Spin, or rather socked the Spin and beat our way past Hope Island and it's rocky neighbor Despair Island.

Turned the corner at Halfway island for the long awaited Spin run home under the bridge. Niki is a natural at helping the spin. She had the Apparent angles down perfectly for optimum VMG. We used 'Cruising Gybes' were we dropped the sock and then Gybed the main. Worked fine with just the two of us. No drama at all. Ran back under the bridge under a wonderfully red sunset all the way back to base. 4 hours to get back.

And then this beautiful woman drove me home in a red convertible sports car. Life doesn't get any better than this.

(Kids should have come - yes I'm talking to you Henry. Lost power at home, but we had uninterrupted breeze and Internet connectivity. Many thanks to Regan and Calum for holding down the fort so we could go and enjoy ourselves).

(Oh a bunch of non- essential bits of the boat broke, but the boat performed great and we are learning how to tune her so we don't get overpowered by 20+ knot gusts, and if we do we now know what to do.)