The last week has been a good week in the life of the VESTAS SAILROCKET. It has been made all the better by being in the company of Hydroptere and the team who sail her.

It's yet another glorious summer day here in East Cowes. The first new skins are just being laid down in the hungry female moulds. The doors of the shed are open giving a view out over the Medina River. From the shed you can look out and see Hydroptere out sailing. They arrived yesterday and will spend a week or so taking people out for a blast. It's all extremely motivating to me of course. I can't wait to get this new boat in the water and go finish this job of showing the world what a really fast boat looks like.

Greetings all,

 well I reckon we are about 60% of the way to launch at the moment.

Despite the new boat looking increasingly more like an aircraft, she is still hanging onto her roots as a sailing craft by taking longer than expected and costing more.

Our biggest hold up at the moment is design. From a boat building perspective we are having to slow down as we can only go as fast as the drawings come out of the design offices. It is very frustrating as we are keen to see the finished pieces come out.

Hello to everyone... after a lengthy absence from these pages.

We have been very busy over the past few months. The build of the next boat is well underway. A long delay in getting all the composite material meant that we spent all our time building all the female moulds in anticipation for when the carbon did arrive. Now that it has... it's a case of 'pick a mould, any mould'.

MIX THIS STUFF WITH THESE PEOPLE AND LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS!