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Date	Abbreviated
2006-06-04 16:31:24	Friday morning, and my first day as skipper for Challenge. And I was to skipper my Global
2005-06-30 09:00:22	...but going to La Rochelle first. We have had a great race across the Atlantic so far and
2005-06-30 09:00:22	...but going to La Rochelle first. We have had a great race across the Atlantic so far and
2005-06-04 09:00:22	Well, we are almost in Boston. 350 miles to go, or 94.4% there. There are some light winds
2005-06-02 09:00:22	Hi all,PWell we have been chasing hard, and were in joint second for a bit. Then we broach
2005-06-02 09:00:22	We have been sailing through a deep low pressure. The baramoter dropped from 1024 to 996,
2005-06-02 09:00:22	Hi all,PWe have been making very good progress towards Boston, now expected to arrive on T
2005-06-02 09:00:22	Hi all,PWell we have blown seven kites, and have repaired five. Given that each is the siz
2005-05-12 09:00:22	Hi all,PNo, I haven't hopped off the boat and made it to some seedy night club, the pole i
2005-05-09 09:00:22	Yes, we have blown our Race Kite (1.5). At 4am this morning, in pretty normal conditions,

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16:31 on Sun 4 Jun 2006 Round The Island 2006

Friday morning, and my first day as skipper for Challenge. And I was to skipper my Global Challenge yacht, CB48, MeToYou.

I got down to the yacht early, with a list of small repair and preparation jobs running around in my head from a sleepless night before. Repair the Stailsail Halyard strop. Check the batton luff boxes in the main which I had bent on the day before. Run the reefing lines. Punch the course into Maxsea. Replace the halyard strop loop webbing with rope. Rerun the trysing lines the "Duncan" way. Clear the spares to the forward two man cabins.

Clearing the nigling job list and getting "my boat" into the shape I would be proud to invite guests on board built my confidence and any nerves soon gave way to excitement and enjoyment of the event. I left the crew, my mate Marlese, and crew Balaz and Maggie (who joined me at Cal's invitation), to finish preparing the boat and stowing the food and drinks for the weekend. Up to the Challenge Markee to meet the guests and escort them down to the yacht.

Friday was a day of training - most of it a bit contrived because of a lack of wind, but we were in reasonably good shape by the start of the mini race in the afternoon. The results were not great though - we were last - but at least we had a reasonable start and the crew seemed to be well on top of the task.

The Challenge yachts were drafted into forming an exclusion zone for the start of the Volvo Open 70 race from Portsmouth to Rotterdam, and so we had to anchor in a designated spot and had ringside seats for the charge past of the awesome machines.

Dinner was held at the Royal Corrintian Yacht Club after picking up a mooring buoy outside Cowes.

The race start at 06:40 in the morning went superbly well, with us across the line first (perhaps debatable with Samsung - 41, Duncan). The beam reach down to the Needles went quite well with just Cal able to sail over the top of us - bastard. I played it too conservatively around Bridge, giving it far too wide a berth and loosing a lot of ground. Then we had a fiasco with the pole. The wind came around to 110, and i decided to go with the port pole and get the Yaknee polled out. Went well, but I left the "skipper position" (aka at the backstay) to play bowman and get the pole organised. By the time I got back to the backstay, the wind had shifted 60 degrees and I had to return to the fordeck and get the whole lot down again. Three positions slipped by...

Around St Catherins Point we sailed around Pindar (#42, Jim) who sailed into a small wind hole. We slipped by them barely 50 meters away, unaffected by the hole. This fortold the patchy and bizzare wind conditions which were to be a feature of the remainder of the race. At times we were powering along at 8.5 knots looking like we were going to catch the leaders. And then we would be idling along at less than a knot watching them sail away again.

Bembridge Ledge was a parking lot for yachts, and we sat for an hour with zero wind and zero boat speed - along with a couple of hundred other yachts in very close proximity.

Finally a South Wester kicked in and we were able to crawl towards it and get going again. The final beat was exhilirating and although we came in last, we made up some impressive ground on Pindar over the last hour and ended only half a tack behind them.

Most importantly, the guests had a great time, and the day was a great success.

It will be a race to remember alongside the Global, RBI and Ireland.

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Posted on : 24 Oct 2002 Challenging Times

I am not sure that I can take much more of the emotional roller coaster that Challenge Business is putting me through. The rough weather - no problem, The stormy seas - bring it on, the early generator alarm clock - I normally get up first and fire it up, the runs - no problem. But hell after the collapse of the 2002 New World Challenge, they have now put me through a gut wrenching time as they consider whether I will in fact be able to do the 2004 - because I am diabetic.

Real frustrating, yes I have to watch what I eat, and yes exercise is now essential for my well being - but hey I can control my blood sugar without pills and without injections. In fact if I were to be tested for diabetes now, I doubt I would be diagnosed as diabetic. All well and good, but with the label now firmly around my neck, I now run the risk of being bumped from the race.

The last week or so has been hell, gut churning hell.

How nice it was then this morning to get a call from Alex Phillips, challenge training skipper and skipper on Quadstone in the last race to say that herself and Jeremy (also skipper in the last race and Sail Training Manager) giving some words of encouragement and letting me know that they were both backing me...

Nothing is finalized yet and my head is still all affray, but at least I know that I have some big guns helping out in my corner and it is also immensely comforting to know that Alex in particular (I have trained with her a few times in the past) is that confident in my ability to do the race.

So I am off for another ten day training sail tonight, with Alex and heading into severe gale (Force 9) forecasts for Sunday, and another bad low which should hit us on Wednesday. Maybe the strong winds will calm me down, and the exhilaration will get me back on an even keel...

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