00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - I've started 10 Fastnets and finished eight of them.
00:17 - This will be my first one, so looking forward to it.
00:19 Think you got the first boat when I was about eight or nine?
00:22 And we did-- - 2006.
00:23 - Yeah, 2006.
00:25 We did a lot of cruising together,
00:27 and neither mum or my brother were that interested
00:29 in going sailing, so it was always you and me
00:32 going out, going sailing.
00:34 I've loved sailing with you and learning from you.
00:36 So yeah, it's a dynamic that works really well,
00:39 so I really enjoy it.
00:41 Yeah, we've sort of done a lot of sailing together,
00:42 and since then I've said that I wanna do racing.
00:45 We did a lot of racing together.
00:47 And then you came back from round Britain Island,
00:49 and you went, "Sophie, would you like to do
00:51 "the Fastnet next year?"
00:52 And I went, "Yes."
00:54 - Yes, Sophie and I are no stranger
00:55 to racing double-handed together.
00:58 And after a full season last year,
01:00 with a full RORC season,
01:02 I was looking to do something different.
01:04 I was just conscious I hadn't sailed
01:05 with Sophie at all last year.
01:06 Why don't we have a go, family team?
01:08 - Yeah.
01:10 - It's not part of a bigger series campaign,
01:11 so we can just go out and enjoy the race
01:13 and make the most of it.
01:15 - I'll let you do the navigation,
01:16 let you do the technical side of it mostly.
01:20 And then, yeah, it works pretty well.
01:22 I sort of, if I'm not sure, I'll always ask you,
01:24 and you've got the knowledge and the experience.
01:26 But then, when you're down asleep,
01:28 it's sort of my time to do what I want to do on the boat
01:31 and see how fast I can get it going.
01:33 So, yeah, it's really good fun.
01:34 And I really enjoy that sort of being able to do
01:38 what I want to do on the boat
01:39 and not having six other people sat there going,
01:41 "Are you sure that's the right thing to do?"
01:44 So yeah, instead it's just you,
01:45 which tends to go pretty well.
01:47 Pretty much everyone you talk to is like,
01:52 "I want to do a Fastnet this year, I want to do this."
01:54 - The fleet is very competitive,
01:56 especially with the double-handed fleets as well.
01:58 So it's a very close racing.
02:00 You've got headlands, tides, weather, all the complexities.
02:05 - All the challenges that it brings with it.
02:07 Seeing the Fastnet rock, going around the lighthouse
02:09 and going, "Oh, that's what Dad's been doing
02:11 all these years."
02:12 (laughing)
02:14 - It'll probably be dark and misty.
02:16 - Yeah, that's what you usually say.
02:17 (laughing)
02:20 (upbeat music)
02:22 (wind whooshing)
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