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We woke up on Monday to find Force 7 and 8 gales and very heavy rain. However the forecasts indicated that this should pass through by midday and that the weather would be fine for our next leg to Plymouth.

So at 2.15pm Monday we set out and sailed out through the Needles and clear of the Solent for what should be a very long time.

The sail down to Plymouth was largely uneventful although it did rain very hard through the night and there was still quite a large sea running from the earlier storms. Sarah's planned timings proved perfect again and we tied up in Mayflower Marina in Plymouth at 06.30am on Tuesday 27th May.

This is the venue for the start of the Rally Portugal and we found several of the other boats already here. So after an all too brief nap, we soon got chatting to various of the owners and trying to remember names, faces and boats!