It's Monday and it's forecast to blow today. This forecast should give us gusts to 30 knots and with this we should see some good speeds.

VESTAS Sailrocket 2 is really still a work in progress but now this progress has a sense of urgency as it is being done under the watchful eye of the WSSRC (Record governing body).

We are super keen to get on the water today. The weather has been very flat and looks to continue being flat for the forseeable future after today. Come on Walvis, we're more ready than we have ever been, give it to us!

More fairings are now present on VESTAS Sailrocket 2. The strut now has a feathering fairing fitted and the front float strut now has a trailing edge fairing fitted. Little details are constantly being improved and systems refined.

The kite-surfers down in Luderitz finished their record attempt a week or so ago which freed up the WSSRC record commissioner to come up and watch over our 28 day period. The other day I has Sebastien Cattelan contact me and ask me if he could have him back for this coming Tuesday and Wednesday as they have a good 'blow' on the way and desperately want to have one more shot at the title. I basically said that this would be fine by me providing that our attempt takes precedent and is not hampered in any way i.e. if our forecast means we are not sailing then by all means he can have him but if things change on short notice then he must come back regardless of the situation in Luderitz.

I thought that the big problem would come from the WSSRC not authorising this arrangement but this proved not to be the case. They stated that they didn't want any bureaucracy getting in the way of a proper attempt if possible. I totally applaud this stance. We could of played games with keeping the commissioner on site here to hold the competition back but I simply don't want to see that type of crap enter this game. It's hard enough to get to this stage for any project without having different projects trying to undermine each other. Still, you do have to consider all the implications and the risks it now introduces to your own project. You have to be aware that you may expose yourself unnecessarily to risk by having your 'man' stuck next to a rolled over car in outback Africa as you try to whizz him back and forth over 700km of semi-dirt roads. Any number of scenarios now come on the table. It's a tough decision but we will try and be as helpful as possible as the shoe could just as easily be on the other foot in the future.

I told Seb that I would wait until midday here to make the final call.

If our own forecast is flat on Wednesday then I will try and get down to luderitz myself to go and see this trench in action. I'm sure it's a spectacular sight/site.

The first 'fingers' of a SW wind have just wafted across the glassy lagoon here. The cool breeze has taken the sting off the morning sun. Come on Walvis... COME ON!

We have so many ideas and theories about what is happening with our boats performance and we still have so much to try. The matchstick camera has arrived and we have made a tiny streamlined fairing for it so that it can be attached to the main foil hopefully to film the ventilation and/or cavitation taking place. It will be absolutely amazing if this camera works. I give it a 50/50 chance. It won't be on for today but it will be for the future.

Righto, let's see what the day brings. COME ON WALVIS!

We will do a twitter feed from the beach today and it will come up on the front page of the website as well (you need to keep re-freshing). I believe all the links are on the front page for the live-feed.

Cheers, Paul.