Round Trip

A year ago my brother competed in the Fastnet race, now he's off again. This time he is aboard Playing Around Logic for the Round Britain and Ireland race. The fleet of 27 boats set off from Cowes today at 2pm heading east.

The original course would have seen them leave Cowes heading east to then drop down and head west under the Isle of Wight and start a clockwise circumnavigation of the British Isles. However, yesterday the RORC made the decision to send the fleet anti-clockwise. This was due to a weather forecast of Force 8 or worse off the west coast of Ireland for Thursday, just when the majority of the fleet were expected to be passing through.

The fastest boats in the fleet should be heading back into Cowes in around 7 days, Playing Around is expected back in 12 - 14 days. I'll be following their progress on the race tracker which shows hourly updates of positions and rankings and on the RORC and Sailing Logic websites.