Yes - revised start time and position announced today - line from RWYC to QAB and start 13:00 - current opinion is some will start and immediately retreat to await better weather - others may delay starting - Ash and I plan to mosey down to QAB tomorrow late morning and see what gives.

Plymouth junket reduced to me and family plus Ash and Brian having a very nice meal ashore at Kingsand, and monitoring start from shore tomorrow. Does it still count? Sailing secretary to adjudicate.

Well, Ash and I attended the start of the 2014 Jester Challenge, standing below the RWYC balcony in Queen Anne's Battery as Ewen Southby-Tailyour fired the ritual shotgun-filled-with-talc at precisely 13:00. The mounting excitement as the half-dozen or so competitor boats present remained resolutely at their pontoon berths was almost unbearable. Then we went home.

Ho hum. Met the improbably nice veteran of many Jester/OSTAR races, Bill Churchouse, anyway, so not entirely anticlimactic. I expect they'll all start to drift westward tomorrow in no breeze whatsoever....

Edit: Ash and I were accosted by a fully booted and suited skipper of one of the local Dragon fleet, lamenting the loss of his backstay at anchor in last nights blow. Lost no time in recommending conversion to junk rig. Nasty things, stays. He seemed quite interested.

Peter Scandling wrote:

The boat above the Tamar bridge is called Janvier.... something.  I shot passed it the other day but didn't get a proper look at the name.

Peter

I expect you know this by now, it's Janvier Aquila, a Barbican 33 owned by Dennis Sidebotham who attended the South Coast rally in 2010 - Sailed past her on Sunday. He doesn't seem to be a member any more.