Finally we seem to have left the Irish Sea and entered the Caribbean Sea. Hurray!  Continuous trimming continues.  We can see all of the other boats except WA.  There is going to be one almighty dash for the line and we are prepared with not just white sails plus a spinnaker pole prepared, but also the entire crew will be up once we approach the waypoint at the north east corner of the island that will mark the final run in to the finish.  A remarkable array of sailing conditions on such a short race.  Everyone is exhausted.  The boat is in good order and I think that since I finished my last watch 3 hours ago we have moved up the positions. Bargain!  Lets see if we can get onto the podium.

 

A few dramas last night. The knot holding the vang together came free causing the boom to fly upwards suddenly.  Repaired in under 5 minutes, though.  We also found some alarming chafe on the runner so Graham and I replaced and repaired that today.  Happily we found it before we needed to use it and so avoided a sudden failure under load, which would have been interesting. Have to be creative to find a way of preventing a repeat performance.  Other than that, Singers plus crew are ready for a rum and coke or two…