Wednesday 27th August

I managed to get another ride in the Twilight race, this time on the custom 33” boat that had beat us in the race to Sweden and back. It was quite a cool boat, a bit more cruising oriented than the 30”, and was much larger, both inside and on deck. The skipper had decided to sail without the spinnaker to better his rating, and after a slightly misjudged start was quickly gained the lead until we got out of the main harbour and headed downwind. We took some places back going back upwind and finished 2nd over the line approximately 5 minutes behind the lead boat. After a drink we eventually found we had just won on handicap. The skipper decided it was the first and last time to race without the spinnaker.

Thursday evening there was a bunch of guys playing soccer outside so I went down and joined in. I found that the Uni year is to start next week, which explains the lack of people around in the “student accommodation” to date. They seemed like a nice group of guys, mostly Nepalese, and a couple of Fin’s. They played again on Friday night and I went down and joined in as well.