This morning we left the marina at 0930 to find somewhere to anchor so we could fit the propeller anode. Went a little further than anticipated as wind was quite strong from the east causing big wave we were just off Fort Recovery in 7m of water. We made our plan at breakfast how to reduce our chances of dropping things. John would go down with the anode and hold it in place and I would follow with the screw taped lightly to the allen drive. All worked as planned fitted on 1^st pass. The hull had lots of muck on it and it was only a few days ago we cleaned it. Spent 30 minutes cleaning then back to the marina.

We then lightened the boat removing a lot of stuff not required for racing and piled it up on the dock, including dinghy, outboard motor, bicycle, anchor, various tools, one spinnaker pole and 2 symmetric spinnakers. The  reason for that we changed our class to performance cruisers and as double handed in this event with only as asymmetric  spinnaker got a lot better rating. By looking at the scratch sheet we are by rating the slowest boat in the class which I would say is correct.

Tomorrow is the Nanny Cup, race around Tortola start for us 1015.