Message From nicole

An exciting end to the race. Nova Scotia had just pipped us to the first gate, and we spent the next day edging past them again. Some great helming, &a good sail change meant that we were ahead& gaining slowly. Then with around 40 miles to go to the race finish, 4 boats were within a few miles of each other battling for 2nd 7 3rd place; the wierdest thing being that 2 of them were a hundred miles away, so we had no idea whether they were in better or worse winds than us, &therefore how well we were doing. So we put everthing into it- helming & triming as hard as we could. The miles ticked away slowly, but eventually it was all over & we just had to wait for the results to come though. First it looked as though we had made third, but then after some minor controversy, it became clear that New York had made a mistake in reporting their position &we had beaten them to 2nd by a mere 9 mins after 2000 nmiles!<