17:00. Tuesday. We finally rounded the western edge of the TSS and are now heading to the elusive ROCK!! And looking forward to a tot of champagne to celebrate. Our current eta is 16 hours so at the time of writing this we should be there for lunch time tomorrow Yippee !! We seem to have settled into our watch system better today and spirits have lifted. Maybe because we are not quite so healed ! The wind has swung round to WSW which is great news and m...

We've made it to the Scillies !! Yay. A third of the way All is good John says he met some people in a bar and woke up on a boat somewhere. Please help!! Another heavy night of partying and most of the crew sleeping it off below. We note we are still up near the front of the fleet with Ran still in sight. See you all in Plymouth at lunch and hope the support crew have arrived already!! Booze running low so bring supplies Think we may have gone a bit...

9am Monday morning. The sun is shining and we have dolphins accompanying us on our way. Yesterday was full on, we chose what we thought would be the quiet end of the start line, only to find the big boats and everybody else of the same opinion. Having watched the large cats disappear it was our turn to start. Lots of jockeying for position and we went over the line with a boat 5 metres away on port and another the same distance on starboard. We tacked all the way...

It's game on. iCap leopard passed us at the start line now just to catch them up!! Cracking along currently ten miles from start point doing 7 knots. Reefs been in and out and up and down all night. Crew all good and great spirits. Richard counting down the hours until his first drink! Mike not loving 45 degree living! First dolphin seen this morning and sun just starting to warm us up. Happy days

Saturday night at Shamrock. Fastnet sticker being applied !