It was our final day yesterday at Little Britain 2010.

Hot Stuff!

And we didn’t come last… In one of the races. In the other we were just concerned to make sure everyone in front was ok. We played a blinding ‘sweeper’ role. Everyone was fine, but you can’t be too careful.

It was a day we expected to be poor as the wind was forecast to drop to 2kts – with a 2kts tide against. Which means you stand still! This is not fun sailing. But it didn’t really turn out to be too bad – with our new helmsman today (who replaced Capt. Slow) pushing the boat to its limits … we hit 8.5kts which is quite fast when you are keeled over at 45 degrees!

We made a couple of tactical errors which cost a few minutes – but for a novice crew what do you expect. Some of the yachts evidently had people who sailed for a living!

As I mentioned before there is something about boats and sailing. This was very competitive though – and perhaps next time I will try the cruising type sailing! In the Bahamas?

We don’t know our overall position yet – I suspect it will be towards the bottom of the division (we were in the Championship). I will update the blog when I know. We can hold our heads up though and I think we deserve a fair play award!

Our skipper, Hooky and his Mate, Max from Flying Fish were fantastic – even when we managed to melt Max’s head into the boom!

I would highly recommend it!

Update…

After penning this blog I discovered that we got 84 points and only one boat got more – 85! We were second. To last.