Today will be one of those days I will remember for quite a while. Whale number two appeared in front of us much smaller this time,  the little guy did blow off  causing a lovely spray of water before I swear I saw a reproachful eye as with a flick of the tail he moved out the way. Follow this with Blue sky Beam reaching, the only dampener is the vibrating luff of the main against the mast causing quite a din.  Coming back on watch with 15 miles to the coastline as the remaining light disappeared it was time to get the Code 0 up, with a single reef just to balance the boat. Regularly hitting 9 and 10’s in the swell it was a lovely few hours sailing. As we round the western tip we move up another gear and up goes the A2 with the light house flashing 3 times every 20 secs it really played with the night vision. Then I looked at our wake and we had the most amazing phosphorescence, it must have been 20 plus degrees that night and we had Bombardino in out sights, who had chosen to hug the coastline at 4ish knots. We completed our gybe and were oncourse for the last waypoint, as the wind just faded and faded. With 2 miles to go we had 4 knots of wind and could no longer hold the kite so we pealed back to the C0. With 200m to go we were down to a knot a wind. We very slowly completed the last 300m, just one last thing to tack and sail into the harbour. We overstood by 100m and went for it. As soon as we did it felt wrong, we weren’t going to make it inside the harbour wall, better tack back, start to tack and we catch the smallest puff that lifts us up the 30m we need and we can carry on and cross the line at 5:29am British Time.

Engine on Sails down and as promised a Rib from the local sailing club arrives and guides us to our berth.