Yes, I should have said well done, too and belatedly do so.  But of course with Slieve's rig on her, Amiina will be so much fun to sail that they would have been happy carrying on!  Who would want to wind up a noisy engine while wafting blithely along on a light breeze?

Was Amiina actually last, or was it just that the reporters thought that having a weird rig, she must have been the slowest?  What a shame that on one of the rare occasions a junk rig should appear in the National Press, it is to imply that the boat is slow :-(

They say that all publicity is good news, so perhaps it would be a good idea to look at today's major newspapers here in the UK.

Apparently two of the quality papers, the Times and the Telegraph have published photos of Edward's Amiina, describing it as the slowest boat in the Round the Island Race last week. This is an indication of the tenacity of the skipper rather than the performance of the boat, as he was only one of the more than 70% of the Island Sailing Club fleet (some 620 boats) who failed to complete the course in the allotted time.

What is particularly interesting is that there appears to be no other mention of the Round the Island Race in the press this weekend.

Well done Edward!