The breeze is just starting to kick in as the tide fills the lagoon. A swell is folding around the distant point and the last remnants are coming all the way across the bay and lapping up against the Yacht Club. Every now and then we get a breaking one.

We have fitted a new aft planing surface to VESTAS SAILROCKET and today may be its baptism. Let's see... its currently 11:31 and hight tide is at 1330 hrs... we are generally good for up to 3 hours afterwards.

I reckon we will be sailing today. So let's get the ball rolling.

The plan will be to get the large rudder up much sooner in the run so as to get a proper feel for the current fixed skeg setting... and to see how the new aft planing surface works. The OBC (onboard camera) has been repositioned so as to have a clear view of the back end proceedings.

Cheers, Paul.