Yeah Mark, I know what that feels like now on too many occasions.  Wish I wasn't so busy at work as wind has been pretty good up this way all week (apart from Sunday where it was unsailable on the open water - 40knots+)

Tell me bout it, just done 6 days on- 1st day off and the wind drops out.  It's a worry we improved our alpha today, very east having to point upwind to hold ground all the time and such a short sailing area couple hundred metres.

That's always going to be the case especially when you've got some new sails also (from memory your sails are new(ish), aren't they?????)

PS - I'm still amazed that Pierre's, Vando's and Brad's session on Monday only sees the MBM in 5 spot.  Just goes to show how good conditions for the start of this month have been on both sides of the country. 

New enough to still have chinese sweat on them

Yep unfortunately that seems to happen to the mob now, we get a corker but so does the rest of the country.