The sport of sailing is like no other – world famous sailors compete with and against passionate corinthian sailors.

Today we ran through the light air combinations, as the race looks like a light wind, not trade wind, challenge. Settings tested for these conditions, and data gathered to work out our optimum route and sail selection. An early tune up with another Cookson 50 helped see the effect of these changes – all positive. New rudder working well.

So we’ve come to the end of our preparation, training, coaching, and boat building, and thanks to the incredible professionals on the boat, the amateurs (muppets) have now been upgraded to muppet plus. This exercise has probably been more of a challenge than their various round the world yacht races or olympic campaigns. Anyway we’re a cohesive crew and all ready for the challenge of racing round these island and the odd active volcano – start is tomorrow morning.

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