At 3am today I awoke to take part in the annual Round The Island Race. I was crew on Spirit of Diana a sister boat to Spirit of Minerva who I crewed back from Horta to Portsmouth a couple of weeks earlier. We slipped our berth, or rather left our 3rd place of a 5 boat raft at about 3:45 and made our way to the start side of the course for a 5am start. With tide and wind both pushing us to the line we were cautious at the start not wanting to be course side of the line before the starting gun and face a penalty, but we were over cautious and ended up being one of the last of our class, category 0, to cross the line. However we had opted for a more southerly track than our competition and were keeping to the better water to exploit the tide. By the time we reached the first real landmark, The Needles, we’d hauled in many boats including all of the other Farr 65′s. We maintained that lead and continued to hauling in other boats eventually being the 14th boat in our class of 47 to cross the finish line. Our handicap adjusted place was 29th.
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