Nisida round the Fastnet Rock at 629 this morning - in fog and with the radar on. The north-westerly wind of early yesterday duly backed as forecast and they got round rather earlier than looked likely 24 hours ago.
I spoke to Peter on the mobile and he said they had c 15 knots of wind from the south west and were hoping to hold the reacher once they rounded the spreader mark. If they can hold this they will start to overhaul more boats. But those of you following the tracker dont believe they have suddenly shot up to 13th place on handicap - the tracker has got confused by a 180 degree turn and now puts those furthest past the rock as last. I reckon though they have gone up from 41st yesterday to about 30th.
Inevitably, for those of you who raced the Middle Sea Race or Cowes Week with us, one boat they saw on rounding the rock was Orca. Orca is a Class 40 boat owned by a member of Ranelagh, Richard Tolkein. Nisida won the race to the Rock - I bet it's still close at Plymouth
Two years ago the trip back from the Rock took us 29 hours. It wont be that fast this time, especially as the winds are now forecast to drop - especially tomorrow. But my gloomy forecasts of food rationing as discussed with our Commodore last night (he was musing as to which one of the crew you would eat first) shouldn't have to come to reality.
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