While I was getting Pam’s sailing back up to speed, the canal in France was setting its own speeds. They sure had a hell of a session on the canal, new world record, a big jump in the production record, and the end to seventeen years as the UK’s fastest. Would have been broken, but to see Farrell take the title just felt right.

Pam’s bee out with us a few time since she’s made Essex her new home, but somehow it really hasn’t gone her way, so it was time for a bit of one on one. Just watching I could see which courses she’d been on, everyone teaches in their own way, and sometime that really shows. Not that its wrong, far from it, the message from everyone is the same, just the delivery and how its interpreted is different.

Pam had all the knowledge but was using running through the steps too methodically, it didn’t take long to get her combining knowledge with feeling, and then she was flying again.

Flying is what they were doing in the canal, Antoine pushed the world record to over 49knots, while Patrik stepped up his production record close to 47knots. Truly amazing speeds, though the way they’ve been sailing it was just a matter of time, but was our brits. Farrell O’shea and John Smalley that pushed their boundaries the furthest.

Both had started out the year with the aim of getting into the forty-knot club. It looks like it was a close run thing between then but ultimately it was Farrell who took the gold with a 44.34knot run.

With all the focus on speed lately, this wasn’t the scenario I had planned for. Its been seventeen years since I took the spot of being the uk’s fastest, but somehow this felt good. Don’t get me wrong, hate loosing, especially two places at once, but dedication was rightly rewarded.

Hopefully I’ll get a chance to come back with something this week if the predicted storms work in our favor.