Nick and I were together at Bradwell only about a minute behind, at Colne you and Nick tucked into the shore before tacking to the gate, Nick was only about 2 minutes behind you at that point. I know he was worried about his damaged spinnaker pole and he didn't push to hard back. I decided to go out to sea further into the steadier breeze but got caught by the much stronger tide than I thought. I lost about 5 minutes on you guys in the space of a 10 minute tack, dammmmmmmm.

What a blast back though.

Is there anywhere we can get hold of the actual elapsed times, it would be interesting to see how far the reallllllllly tough single handicap rating is killing us. I'm not sure how I can sail to those numbers apart from buying a blowup doll, fitting a jib and claiming a 2 handed handicap. To give time to the F18's, and fully sorted 20ft Hurricanes now thats harsh.