We are tied up in Plymouth having got here at 3am this morning and it is beautiful weather amazingly! We managed to travel 310 miles for our qualifier by sailing out the eastern solent on sunday over to Cherbourg along the French coast back to the English coast out to Eddystone light and finally into Queen Anne’s Battery in Plymouth.

The last week and half have been an enormous amount of work including finish fairing the keel which we added some 30kg+ of lead to in order to pass the STIX requirements for the race. We also rewired the boat, put in a B and G H3000 system, finished re building the chainplate bulkheads which had rottened out. Basically a lot of things which normally would be sorted this close to the race! However, with the help of many of Myles’s friends and Clive and by doing multiple 14 hour days here we are with another three pages of jobs to get done by Sunday when the race starts!

So enough writing I am off for a shower and then will start on the job list.