Only one race was held today as the wind was very unstable making it very difficult for the race committee to set the starting line. The wind went from 3 knots to 12 knots and from 320 to 050 in continual motion until around 1400. Finally at about 1430 they got one race underway and […]

Three races were completed today off the coast of Lanzarote with winds of 14-18 knots from 015 to 080. Shifty and difficult again. We did pretty well again and stretched our lead to 11 points on Platoon with a 5,1,4. The competition was a bit tougher today with Quantum and Artemus out on the track. […]

Lot of new words up there at the top. The TP 52 fleet is racing in the Trofeo Cesar Manrique here in Lanzarote for three days as a tune up for the TP 52 World Championship which will start on Monday. Lanzarote is in the Canary Islands, in fact, I believe it is the Eastern […]

Not a bad day for the Moneypenny. We think we beat Container, so that we put us ahead of her for the week. Numbers and Ran beat us for sure. After a lengthy postponement ashore, the fleet headed out for a pleasant race. By 1300 the wind had moderated to 12 knots and we sailed […]

No racing today. Mistral was in strong. 52 knots top wind speed! No one left the harbor. The forecast is for this to moderate tomorrow and hopefully be raceable. We will see. I had a very nice dinner with my French cousins last night in Mougins, which is a very charming town just inland of […]

We had an email blackout at our house over the past 24 hours and somehow my Blackberry went down at the same time. Blackberry is back up now so I am writing this from the boat. Anyway, yesterday was a black day for us onboard Moneypenny as we were black flagged at the start. Today […]

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