Sailing As team Metherell, we lined up with 1754 other boats to race around the Isle of Wight. Light winds early in the day (Our start gun fired at 05.10!), meant a relatively slow time around the island, but the racing was no less exciting, between the 4 extreme 40's. We finished in 4.34mins some 6 minutes behind race winner The wave and another minutes ahead of Ecover, Oman Masirah was a close second.
It was a great race Ecover lead to the needles after a flying start, We then took the lead at St Catherines point after choosing to sail offshore, but only by a small margin over the wave and masirah who went inshore. The Wave took the lead as we beated towards Bembridge, and held an important lead around Bembridge buoy as after here the tactical options ran out as it was a close reach down the solent to the finish.
Everyone on board the GAC Pindar boat were delighted with our race, it was a great day and really fun to sail the 40's on a long course to truly show there speed, Only Francis Joyon's Huge Tri, IDEC could pip he extreme 40's around the course.
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