Clean Bottom

Blue Jade has been out of the water this weekend for a polish and brush up...


She is now so shiny, you can see your face in her...


Although, everything will look a little blue...

Rainbow on the finish line

Does it make you go faster though...

Last race of the Winter Series

Sunday was the last race of the Winter Series, and although it turned into quite a nice morning, there was still a fair bit of wind around, averaging at 19-20 knots for most of the race.


Weird winter light did funny things to my camera phone as well!

Oh, and we won, Skipper's decision to re rate the number one up to 20 knots seems like it was a good idea... now...

Bow down

We tried out something new yesterday. In an effort to get the stern higher, supposedly reducing the amount of hull in contact with the water and therefore drag, particularly downwind, we moved almost all of the weight on board foward...

Martin's Jerked Meat

More from the Tour in due course, we'll tell you all about the three days we spent in Dielette sometime later...

But first, a little tidbit, a tiny morsel, of Jade related fun.

Courtesy of Sam, who reported that his missus saw it and just couldn't resist, a new range of Blue J'Ade related snack foods...


Everyone sampled a bit of Martin's jerked meat, including Martin himself, it was salty and a bit tough, with a distinctly yeasty odour...

What?

It's beef jerky. What did you think it was?

Broken furler

A Thursday night race? Very light winds? Must be time to break something: in this case - the furler.

Snaggly rope all caught up round the bottom required some fixing. Which required the skipper and Fingers to assume 'the position'.

Fingers also took the opportunity to nip below and pinch the anchor...

Inter Island Race and Governor's Cup

Less said about these the better really. 6 hours 15 for the crossing to Jersey, plenty of sunburn and 22nd overall. First two hours of the race wasn't so much sailing as drifting on the tide.

The wind picked up near Jersey, which was fun, but by the time it did, White Rabbit had already finished.

Sam Field took a load of photos (check out the one of the Jade underneath Condor!), as did I.

Sunday's governor's cup was also a bit of a let down, as the Guernsey team lost to the pesky crapauds 2-0. Light winds eh? What can you do.