This is shaping up to be a classic windy Walvis Bay day. Clear skies with the wind already over 15 knots and coming from the South West before 12.

We have all been going over VSR2 in preparation for giving it a nudge. The big question that we want answered today is- will the new foil get through the low and middle speed ranges... or just be a draggy heap getting 'skull-dragged' along?

The footage from yesterday is fantastic. Helena has already made the vid for posting but we are running out of time to upload. We have to get out early as it may blow us out today. If this is the case then we will simply wait over on the beach all day for a lull. Speaking of which, we can't allow our recent progress lull us into a false sense of security and make a jump too far. On the other hand, this may be our last decent day in this testing session before we depart.

I don't have the harnesses in yet... and the seat isn't properly fitted. At the moment I'm sitting on the bare floor... but the boat just feels so safe that I don't sense any danger. Well, if this foil can get up to 40... then I know it can get up to well over 50. The team has developed a taste for warm Pol Roger champagne... and I don't like todisappoint the team.

OK, well either way, today should be pretty illuminating for us. We seem to have the weather we havebeen waiting for so let's get out there and see what happens.

We will try and 'tweet' updates from speed spot.

Cheers, Paul