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What an incredible two weeks! Having arrived back from France fresh from competing in La Solitaire du Figaro, I joined my Sport Environment team and headed up to London to run the first edition of the London Blue Mile for …

It’s difficult to sum up La Solitaire du Figaro in a single blog! Crossing the line in Dieppe certainly ranks as one of my best sailing moments. This race is one of raw emotion. There is no other race that …

As I left the pontoon in Dun Laoghaire, I felt very confident that this was going to be a good leg. My start was good and I rounded the first mark in 10th place. The wind was very unstable on …

Leg 3 starts tomorrow at 11am local time and after a short windward-leeward infront of the harbour, we will head south following the mountainous eastern edge of Ireland. The forecast at the start is for a light westerly wind and …

Leg 2 finished under a dramatic skyline, with the Irish mountains looming under some incredible lenticular clouds and gusts of 40knts roaring down the valleys. What a brilliant last 24 hours, firstly sailing delicately around the high pressure ridge, tacking …

This morning we have been looking at the likely weather conditions for Leg 2 of La solitaire du Figaro which starts at 1400UT on Sunday 7th August.  The leg is one of the longest of this year’s Solitaire and takes …

3rd August 2011 I crossed the line at 13:59, around 45minutes after Fabien Delahaye. The final positions changed a lot in the  last 12 hours with the wind shutting down near Balfleur and many boats choosing to Anchor in over …

This week I will be working on the Roadbook for each leg of the 2011 Solitaire. The overall race is 1675 miles broken into 4 stages. The first stage starts in Perros Gruiec, in Northern Brittany on the 31st July …

I love the intensity of this Figaro fleet and the revised Transmanche Course was brilliant to focus on speed, manoeuvres and quick decision making. Whilst I finished 15 of the 21 starters, there were some good moments in this race …