Skipper Paul Cayard and his crew have adopted a Z ZEGNA total look on shore when dressing up for formal occasions. Their look will be both urban and sexy like the styling of this fashion brand, the latest collection by the famous Maison Ermenegildo Zegna.

A personal friend of the family who has always greatly praised both the quality and style of Zegna, Paul Cayard himself has selected Z ZEGNA for his Pirates during his brand new adventure around the world on board the “The Black Pearl”.

“I selected garments that are elegant and yet nice for the Pirates to wear. My Pirates are the depiction of the true modern man”, said Paul Cayard.

The four female shore crew members will wear Agnona, the feminine luxury brand of the Zegna Group. For them, Agnona created outfits that perfectly match femininity with the charming elegance of lady pirates.

Cayard has raced on a number of occasions during the Ermenegildo Zegna Trophy in Portofino where in 2006 the 25th anniversary celebrations will be held.

Z ZEGNA

Pirates’ total look includes:suit, shirt, scarf, shoes and travel bag.

AGNONA

Pirates’ total look includes: 3/4 length trousers, shoulder outfit and travel bag.

Long day today, yesterday now. We got some specific conditions that we were looking for to do some sail testing so we got into a full session this afternoon that finished at sunset or just after actually. I was beat and went to sleep.

Good progress with a couple of sails, though not toward Sanxenxo. In fact, as tough as it was to do we had to actually sail away from Sanxenxo for 6 hours to get this testing done. But we did it and it is “in the can” as they say in Burbank. Now, 0115 locAL time Tuesday, the wind has shut off here in the northwest corner of France and we are motoring at 7 knots. These boats are fast but not under motor.

We should get and easterbreeze up to 15 knots later today in the Bay of Biscay that should get us going 18 knots down the track again.

All is well aboard the Pearl. Smooth sea, clear sky, and we are inside (south east) of the shipping lane so no major swerving for traffic.

We have been here in Breskens two days. Hotel Scaldis has been a bit warmer and dryer than the pipe berths onboard and the food and washing machine aren’t bad either. We got Rig 1 out yesterday and Rig 2 in today. Last night we were hosted at the local yacht club here by Jos van den Heuvel of Hall Spars and his team. They have done a fantastic job with our rigs and been great to work with. I visited their facility this morning and it was like a laboratory. Very clean, well insulated, dust free air system in the laminating shed, 38 meter autoclave.

Dinner was a bit of an affair as today there was the biggest race of the year in the area…250 boat racing from Breskens 40 miles up the river to Antwerp. As you would expect, there was a bit of drinking amongst the 1000 people packed into the yacht club. Most of our gang left around 2030 as sleep is as pleasurable as eating ice cream to us.

This morning when we arrived at the pearl, we noticed a new addition to the equipement on the yacht. The following email explains the efforts of some “wannabe pirates”;

From: Linda & Roeland Vroon [mailto:beamreach@zeelandnet.nl]

Sent: 01 October 2005 10:10

To: mail@cayardsailing.com

Subject: Act of piracy in Breskens

Importance: High

Dear Capt’n Paul Sparrow,

A grave act of piracy has been discovered in Breskens this morning.

Last night a gang of renegades has obducted the blow-up parrot form the flybridge of motoryacht “Pastime” and perched it on the com. bracket at the back of “the black pearl”.

You may understand the the owners wife is very attached to her parrot so we could not stand idly by and watch this crime go unpunished.

We were succesfull in defeating the culprits and liberate the poor animal. He will be “deflated” for quite some time.

The owner is on a bountyhunt in St. Tropez at the moment but he told me to hang the guilty when the sun is over the yardarm, so if you’re a couple short on your return to your Spain you know what happened.

Good luck with your Volvo campaign.

Capt’n Roeland Vroon

m/y “Pastime”

Breskens

This morning, Captain Vroon came down to the Pearl and met Freddy Loof and Nigel King and collected his blow up parrot….Unfortunately before we could get a picture of it. I have indeed checked into the “act”, and I am must report that none of my Pirates were responsible. As near as we can tell, this act was perpetrated by local Dutch Pirates. The locals must have felt that the Parrot would actually prefer to live onboard the Pearl. As Captain Vroon’s email indicates, the act was “in the spirit” and this humorous act was appreciated by all in the harbor.

My reply to Captain Vroon;

Captain Vroon, I must report that none of my Pirates were responsible for the relocation of your Parrot. I appreciate the tone of your email and will use it in my daily report. Please check it out on line at www.Cayardsailing.com

By the way, please feel free to come by for a visit of the Pearl. We may be able to find a bit of swag for you.

Captain Paul

I kind of like the idea of a Parrot… a real one though. I might take that onboard. Why have a yard dog? Everyone has one of those. Kimo, look into quarantine laws on the lap.

We are gearing up for our first sail with the new rig tonight and if all goes well we’ll head back to Sanxenxo tomorrow.

Captain Paul

OUT

The day started off very slowly with very light winds from the southwest. It slowly built and by mid afternoon we had 20 knots from 230. We tested our masthead running spinnaker against our masthead reaching spinnaker to find the cross over in angle that each can be carried efficiently. We tested weather having water in our aft tank was better than without. We tested big stay sails and smaller ones. All in all a productive afternoon.

At 2030 local time we passed Ille d’Ouessant off the north west corner of France. The wind was up to 25 knots there so we were enjoying the sunset and ripping along at 25 knots making up for the slow start on the first 40 hours of the trip.

We now have about 20 knots of wind from 300 and making good progress up the English channel. There are a lot of ships around so we are keeping a good eye out for traffic.

We should get to Holland tomorrow afternoon late if the wind holds up.

Life onboard is good. A little damp but good. The crew is all in good spirits and we are looking forward to getting our new Hall mast in the boat on Friday. Jos of Hall Spars has organized a special Dutch dinner for us on Friday night so that plus a hotel room sounds pretty good.

Out.

At 2000 local time the Black Pearl eased out of Sanxenxo on her way to Holland. The trip should take about 3 days. We are currently sailing hard on the wind out into the Atlantic, on starboard tack in 15 knots of wind from 325. The sea is fairly smooth. We are expecting to be on the wind most of tomorrow and then a front approaching from the west should give us some south west oging westerly winds fairly strong Wednesday and Thursday.

The shore team have worked hard in the past 6 days since the 2000 miler to get the Pearl to an improved state. Many of the sailors took a few days off to see their family. Freddy of course was bringing his wife Maja and their new son home. Dirk was home visiting his two week old. I went to california, Juggy and Jerry went to Rhode Island.

The main purpose of this trip is to get out second mast in the boat. Our Spars are made by Hall Spars in Holland. The first was has been excellent and we have made the second one just a bit better we think. We did not have much time to give input to the first one where as we have been able to put some thoughts into the second one. We should be bak in Sanxenxo by next Tuesday having made the swap.

We have 11 people onboard for this trip. Jules Salter; Navigator, Freddy Loof, Dirk De Ridder, Craig Satterthwaite, Nigel King, Jerry Kirby, Justin Ferris, Justin Clougher, Gavin Brady, Jerry Sicilliano (shore team) and myself. Jerry is working on our canard system so we thought it would be good for him to see how it works at sea.

The wind is dropping off a bit and the guys are easing the runner. Very loud sounds. The carbon boat is a drum. Better get up there.

Later.

Paul