I arrived in Honolulu a week earlier than the rest of the crew as we were chartering the boat and it was necessary to check the whole boat was ready for racing. This included:

Stripping winches – two broken pawls found and replacement of a few springs

Removing PHRF Halyards and cossing the spinnaker halyard in the mast

Rebuild and calibrate Nexus instruments which wouldn’t calibrate for a number of reasons including position of gyro compasses.

Satisfy Cat 2 regulations which included the addition of a bilge pump and automatic bilge pump

Hoisting the boat out to grind down the thinly rolled on antifoul as it felt like 60 grit sandpaper. Sanding the bottom to 330 grit wet and dry took 2 days.

Addition of a cunningham, reef line and tweakers for the spinnaker (stablised the spinnakers as the clew was very high cut and there are no shoulders)

Mast tuning (we were happy to find we had speed on Tiburon on the practice day)

As our crew were a total of 44 lbs overweight I ate nothing except slim fast shaves and managed to lose 16lbs during the week before weigh in. We were 22 lbs under class weight after everyone had weighed in.