Fastnet 2019 Troubadour – Monday

Another long night for a different reason, we fell into a hole in the wind, with the result, the leading yachts drew away, leaving at least a third of the fleet struggling to make progress in and direction at all.

I was disappointed to find some hard earned places had been lost, starting to forget what day of the week it was, due to the watch system we were using.

We got the boat up and running again heading for lands end and the Silly

islands, then came the night and the winds increased, we made an error trying to fly our asymmetrical with winds up to 30 knots. A snap shackle broke and during the sail recovery we damaged our pulpit and had to make emergency repairs to out guardrails.

Making good speed towards our goal the Fastnet Rock. A bit disconcerting the fact that the leading multihulls are safely moored at the finish in Plymouth

David Ogden Trimmer and Helm

2019 Fastnet Finisher – Troubadour

David – http://markethive.com/david-ogden