Super Sunday!

I’ve had a lovely day! Ben Ainslie has won Gold in the Finn Class and Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson have won Gold in the Yngling Class for Team GBR. Absolutely fantastic.

In addition, the Greek Yngling Team have won the bronze medal.

And I’ve coached them all.

My delighted congratulations to them all.

Cowes Week

I had a lots of fun sailing on 'Full Pelt' today until our mast fell down. We'd just got into the lead too. Very sad. The photo shows us being towed home.

We had to avoid a buoy that was on our track - and luffing up caused us to broach. After hanging off the back like a monkey, the boat came upright again after letting go of the spinnaker halyard but then the spinnaker went in the water and the drag broke the mast.

I was particularly sad as I was was doing mainsheet today, and had worked hard up the long beats against the tide only to have it all come to nought. However it was fun sailing with the team - Duncan, Piglet, Chris, Jo and Deegs.