24 hours to go!
Festina has been back from her Hebridean cruise for 9 days now – and the time has been spent flat out changing her from cruising to racing mode. It is one of life’s mysteries how this process can take so long – but suffice to say she is nearly ready – which is just as well as it is 24 hours to the start of the Fastnet race.
At my age I really should have got all this racing business out of my system , but sad to say I am really quite excited at the prospect. Chris , my co-skipper , arrives in a few minutes straight from a windy Cowes week so it is refreshing to know that there is someone on board even crazier than me!
Hopefully, if Neptune does not keep us too busy and if I can find my glasses(!) I will be reporting from the race . RORC have a tracker on their website , and with our new AIS we can be followed on the AIS website , so if anyone is interested there will be plenty of opportunities to follow our mistakes.
Bring it on!