It was the Carey Olsen Inter Island Race this weekend. 25-30 knots of wind, nice tidy little run down to Jersey. Don't take my word for it though - have a look at Sam Field's photos of the big race: http://samfieldphotography.ifp3.com/#/gallery/carey-olsen-inter-island-2012/
It was Mick 'Two Pants' Le Tissier on the foredeck and he was soaked through before we even left the harbour I reckon. Here he is at the finish line showing off the sea water that had made it through two layers of oilies...
The race itself was not without incident. We reckon we hit a crab pot, or a knotted bit of weed full of rope or something (maybe Mick lost one of his pairs of pants to a particularly big wave?), as the rudder seized up.
At the finish, we roped in some volunteers from Aztec Gold to help us get the Jade's stern out of the water to have a look - here we all are on the bow...
Sunday was a 'leisurely' sail back to Guernsey...
Dreaming about what might have been probably. Ah well. There's always next year...
