Woke up on day 5 to a very flat Solent, with very little wind. Start was by committee boat out by Portsmouth again, so we had an early start, but the race was postponed due to the lack of wind. Sat around on the water for a couple of hours while the committee moved the line around to try and get a good start line downwind, but the wind kept changing. Eventually we started about 1430, but got caught up in the middle of the fleet over the line, and had to battle up. Some very good jibe mark roundings got us up the fleet, but we just couldn't get close to the race leaders and came in a disappointing 7th. This leaves us with 14 points and joint 2nd overall with Beachwood Homes on the same points, and Amey Loveshack leading the class.
Despite the dissapointing racing we did enjoy some good apre-sail, with a cocktail party at the Royal Yacht Squadron, then a Beneteau 40.7 class party at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.
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