The fleet spent its last night together in Castlebay. Departure day has now come and we've been busy preparing ourselves and the boat for Leg 3 - up around St Kilda and across to Shetland, passing across the top of Muckle Flugga and int Lerwick. Actually, there wasn't too much to do - the main one being to repair our jib top, which had torn during our passage up the Irish Coast. We also made some other minor repairs to stitching and chafe d areas of the jib and main, so are now set to race. For ourselves, we,re well fed and watered, scrubbed and fettled, doing our routing and weather planning. This leg also looks like another fast one, with the wind mainly from the southwest/west, so a lot of spinnaker work!
The big Open 40, Brusails and Paradox, the bit trimaran, have already left - we leave this evening at 1912hrs, so we need to work hard to reduce the gap. Out ETA in Lerwick is sometime on Thursday afternoon - our favourite arrival time, because it gives us two good nights sleep!
Trev
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