Friday Night was a last minute Rum race aboard the mighty Jagged Edge the SR26 co-owned by Josh. The crew for the race was myself, Josh, Andrew Wills, or Willzy, Norm the Rambler Boat Captain, Jamie from Custom Marine and Richard who is the Skipper of the super yacht Silvertip .

As with any rum race the key is fun and from the outset we were going to get heaps of that as we were definetely at the very end of the SR26′s wind range with gusts up to 30 knots. We had the smaller cruising main and the number 3 up, for the entire circuit we were treated to a lot of spray, a thumping upwind and a great sail downwind (no kites aloud), at one point as we were coming to round the second mark Jamie decided to chase the waves and we had a great ride until we realised we actually needed to round the mark.

As with all these races I gain more insight and learning each time out and I have to say it’s such a pleasure sailing with a crew as well schooled as these guys.
dR