Amendment to the Sailing Instructions came out last night delaying our start to 1000 so got a lie-in this morning.

We left the dock at 0900 for the race without any practicing with our new recruits. Sails up no problem and a good start. The extra weight on the rail helps and we had equal speed or more than those around us which is most unusual. On the water we lead for a good part of the leg upto the 1^st mark getting overtaken by a KK28 that does have a higher handicap than us so OK. The mark was missing, and a rib was on station not anchored, due to some incompetence somewhere the rib said we touched them so took a precautionary 360 and carried on. That let a J99 get by. Initially a tight reach we caught her then when spinnakers went up the KK28 & J99 put asymmetric ones up we went for the symmetric which paid later as we could really push the downwind angle to 170 degrees true.

On the water we finished 2^nd. On corrected time we WON the class by 2 minutes from 2^nd. Our 1^st podium spot in a race in the Caribbean.

Tomorrow is the start of Antigua Sailing Week, just really hope we have not peaked too soon.