Today dawned with me being sick. I have had a cold this whole week but I was physically sick – not something you want to know about. The RAF regiment boys who are racing on the boat tried to be helpful and fed me diralyte which worked the opposite of how it is meant to due to my reaction to it! I think it is child abuse to be giving that to kids it really is rank. I basically crawled down to the boat and announced I wasn’t going to be cleaning it everyone was sympathetic and offered various potions and pills.

The first race we were 30 seconds late to the line – not a great start. We managed to kill the A2 in the first drop and then proceeded around the top mark where we hit a rock which wasn’t charted – hard. On monday we will hoist out to repair the damage. However, we ended up 2nd in the race. Seeing as I was not feeling flash Ian jumped over the side to survey the damage to the keel bulb. I called to organise a lift out at a marina in Charlotte Amolie but it was decided that we could continue racing.

The second race we were again late across the start line. It was a long race 23 miles race with lots of sail changes the TP52 and the Cookson were able to stretch their legs on the course and we ended up with a 4th. Putting us in 3rd overall after the first two races out of 5.

So quite a bit of boat damage to repair…..