Sail with New Freebooters

Jean-Pierre Dick has reduced sail to allow him to continue after a collison with something in the water damaged his leeward rudder. He’s waiting until better weather before gybing and setting about trying to repair it. Meanwhile, Mike Golding and Roland Jourdain are going at least 3 knots faster, so they will certanly overtake him [...]

I’m indebted to Sophie Turner, my firefighting friend from Tavistock, for this summer sailing snack recipe.
You can make this on board, if you like. No fancy equipment needed.
Ingredients
75 grams butter
225 grams strong cheddar
2 tablepspoons sour cream (why do they put a sell-by date on this stuff?)
4 tablespoons Guinness
4 drops Tabasco sauce
2 tablespoons finely-chopped parsley
freshly-ground black [...]

Those at the rear of the fleet have suffered 45 knot winds gusting to 60 knots in two successive lows, giving them no time to recuperate.
Jean-Baptistse Dejeanty has a number of problems that have caused him to slow down until the weather improves and his team decide what he can do about them. Jonny Malbon [...]

Whoever did the cataloguing of sailing books for Amazon.com obviously isn’t a sailor - and isn’t much of a librarian, either. Here are some of the titles I found under Books>Fiction>Sailing:

Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race - Nick Ward and Sinead O’Brien
Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
Sailing [...]

Shipping a new navigator hasn’t changed Green Dragon’s style. Finding herself at the wrong end of the fleet as the wind faded and forced the pack to take a more southerly course, the Dragon gybed and headed straight for the shore. Initially it looked good, as she reached along close to the shore while the [...]