Leg 3 of the Triangle was forecast to be a slow one with no wind predicted in the middle of the English channel. We had a reasonable start and unfurled our code zero. At some point between furling the code zero away and moving to our No. 3 we picked up something (weed we suspect) and we became the slowest boat in the fleet. It became so bad that at one point everyone else had passed us. We were understandably depressed and very frustrated.
We performed a number of tacks and ultimately broke free of whatever was constraining us however at that point we felt sure that we were going to be last. We worked hard through the night and unbeknown to us managed to work our way back up the fleet.
At around 20nm from Torbay we were approached by a border patrol vessel. They launched a rib full of chaps and sped towards us. I explained what we were doing and that they could not board as we were racing. Fortunately this was all accepted and they went on their way. It was all very exciting.


As we came into the bay the wind died and we sat for an hour drifting again. We were delighted to find that we were the 4th boat across the finish line just behind the higher rated Firefly.
We have no idea what the official final result is yet however at 1300 today we head off to the prize giving.