Mast down and up day.

FarrOut's wobbly masthead tricolour finally shook itself off of the top of the mast. We couldn't sail the boat with it like that so we had to foresake racing this sunday and sort it out.

Clearly a mast climb was not going to be the best way to sort it out, plus none of us feel light enough to go up there. As sunday morning was high water springs we were able to get alongside the new WSC crane and drop the rig. This transpired into a drop on sunday and a raising on monday morning which gave us more time to do the bits needed and tune the rig.

All back up and just as well we dropped it as a bolt was also missing from our expensive Raymarine wind instrument. Unfortunately I forgot to measure the forestay to make sure we had the exact length required. We'll have to see how she goes...

Start of Sunday Series 05 Sept - Big Seas

An easterly in Weymouth Bay is lumpy so it's not a great surprise that not many boats were out for the Sunday series, 2 in PY and 3 boats in IRC. It was blowing early twenties and a great day not to have Dave our usual foredeck man with us. I was voted in for the job so got wet and have now got ripped oilys.

There's a bit of a mess up on the results so I can't tell you where we came just yet but we had some broaches and avoided a couple of chinese gybes. All kind of frenetic.

Artemis wins overall in Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race

Big congratulations to Jonny Malbon and the crew of Artemis Ocean Racing in their overall victory of the Sevenstar RBI race, this on top of them beating the Imoca 60 record for the course.

It's about time they had some real success in that team, they deserve the win.