Today, we were woken up at the crack of dawn to some lovely music. The Skipper and Crew had a dedicated goal to depart Cowes by 7am. Miraculously, we managed to leave at 6:59am into the Solent. Shortly after, we packed away our fenders and mooring lines into the sail locker. Once all the crew were on the deck, we hoisted the main sail for the first time together.

In quick succession, we also hoisted the Staysail and Yankee 3. We tuned our tacking multiple times until we reached the Needles. From there, we headed to Poole where we reached cruising speeds of 10 knots. After multiple games of eye spy and biscuit breaks, we reached the start of the Poole channel where we started