A few catch up photos: Lay Day

Yesterday just before the squall hit. Doug our "wind whisperer", Judy on
Main and Grunter querying something on the foredeck....

It got wild and wolly pretty soon.  Winds were in the mid 40s knots
At this stage we were under main only...

A cropped version of earlier photo: Genuine Risk, the Dubois 90
rushes past at, I guess, 28+ knots.... (see UPDATE, below)

Today's a lay day, so no racing.  A few woke up with sore heads, having been out on the town last nite till 4-ish....  A day of pottering round the Island and relaxing.  Save for the boys on FreeFire, Sam Chan's TP52, who had to try to get a boom fixed.  It bent in the squall yesterday, just after a gybe while still with jib, not kite, up. As I sit here at the Chawang Cove Resort, looking out at the bay and the boats, she's still boom-less....
So, I'd better finish off with a photo taken just now, from the terrace of our hotel, overlooking the boats in Chaweng Cove, Ffreefire at far left still without boom, Moonblue 2 third from left:

UPDATE (2 June): Geoff Hill, owner of the Dubois 90 Genuine Risk, which you can see at the end of our boom above, told me they hit 29.2 knots in that squall, so I wasn't far off in my guess. He says that they figured if they hadn't had to bear away to go through the Gate, they could've hit 32 knots or more.  The boat's set to go to Australia, be modified and competed in this year's Sydney-Hobart, going for Line Honours.  They had a few issues: the engine wouldn't drive the boat and the canting keel at the same time, so it was one or 'tother, but they've sorted that, I understand. (That had become an issue that the Race Office had to adjudicate on, as you can't race if you don't have a working engine; RO gave Risk dispensation).  Sailing legend Syd Fischer was on board, liked her a lot, and, I'm told, wants now to buy a share in her.