Five Hours for 1 Race

Hola,

We were up ealry today and got to breakast before the Polish team. Then we rigged and launched and we were released from the harbour by 1100.

The wind was from the east but quite light and the race officer tried 3 times to get race 1a off. Eventually all 3 races wwere going in a very light breeze against quite a lot of current. Sarah was 5th and matt 10th, with Mimi and Jamie close behind. Jo was 5th round the windward mark in race 1c which Milo didn;t quite get to when the race was abandoned. The wind then went really light and before \Milo got to the windward mark the whole race was abandoned.

So all were happy at that point and the jedwood twins had their picture taken.
The wind then went round to the sea breeze direction- west but was quite weak as the sky clouded over a bit.

Race 1a got under way for the 4th time and was generaled then blackflagged. Sarah had a great start from mid right and crossed the whole fleet to be on the left.....she won't be doing that again, instead she will bank her gain earleir. Matt was ok in the middle, Mimi came out of the pin and unfortunately Jamie was badly rolled [squashed flat] off the start [ he won't be doing that again]. It was only a very short windward leg and all 4 were in the late teens down the run. A tricky dying breeze led all to be in about the same positions at the finish.

Race 1c saw Jo and Milo come off the pin and in a great act of sportmanship Milo let Jo tack , and Jo led from the left, ariving at the windward mark 5th. Milo was about 10th but got fouled up on a leeward mark rounding.

Milo's challenging leeward mark rounding

Jo finished 8th, nealry 6th in no wind and Milo was in the early 20's from the second best start.
Then the wind completely died off so we came in at about 1630 heving been afloat since 1100. Milo only manged one windward mark rounding in the whole of that time!

Tonight we went to visit a british sailing ship the Bessie Ellen from Plymouth

Don't touch it might fall down

Matt and Milo on the Jules Verne octopussy monument.

the 'Jules Verne' tent and had a drink, Sarah and Mimi talked to the Polish girls and the boys played parkour on the street furniture. We then went for dinner - well chicken and chips- which some say was good. We reviewed the clips of the day and look forward to a good strongish shifty southerly tommorrow.

We have just had dinner and retired to bed. Up at 0700 for breakfast as the first race tommorrow is at 1000- it might be light by then.

More news tommorrow. Alan

More news tommorrow.