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“Dinah finished at 03.51.44 gmt.  All good.  Learned lots. Two gales off the continental shelf.  Not many made it.”

Twenty boats started the leg, ten finished.

Dinah seems to have been lying a-hull in the gale for a few hours, now back on course for Santander in the north of Spain.

Dinah, in green, is at 49.30.05 North, 007.16.09 West, heading 156 degrees.

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Started from Kinsale at 1100 this morning, typical Irish day: misty moisty at first then a spot of sunshine. Ten to 12 knots from 210 degrees means a close hauled/close reach at the start. Des McWilliam – One Sails arrived just in the knick of time with a fine sexy suit of sails.

Slightly shaky video is here.