The culmination of our cruise was the J P Morgan Round the Island Race. We arrived early in Cowes and had some time to chill before the big race.
Let's look at our previous performance in this race:
2008 - didn't compete. We'd only just got Farr Out and my son was just being born.
2007 - dismasted about 20 mins from the finish. Chuckles Too, GK24.
2006 - run out of wind and time after the cock-up of sending slow boats against foul tide at Hurst. We finished around 0400 on sunday with less than a pint of diesel. Chuckles again.
2005 - 126th overall in ISC division. Chuckles.
2004 - 1st in IRC2, Marionette. Well that was only me doing mast but I'll quote a first when I can!
So as you can see it's pretty good for us just to get round. We didn't really have a race crew (no main trim, no nav, not too much on the rail). Even so I'm disappointed that we made some mistakes which our previous experiences should have warned us of. That said we had a cracking run from Ventnor to Bembridge around 140 degrees apparant with a bit of puff behind and some surfs. We seemed to be creaming through the fleet.
Ho Hum...there's always next year!
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