Not much to report I'm afraid.

We have the whole team on standby... but the wind isn't coming to the party. It's forecast to come in from Tuesday on so we are using the time to keep refining the boat.

And so it begins... with what looks like a rather mild day.

It's just gone quater past two and that makes it high tide. We spent the morning doing final tweaks and instrument calibrations. The wind has swung into the WSW but isn't building at a great rate. My gut feel says it will get to around 17-19 knots tops.

I have just arrived back from the airport to pick up the rest of the team after spending the morning putting the V8 on the boat... well, the wing-sail anyway.

So everyone is on site including the WSSRC commissioner who is here to oversee our record attempt. The wing looks in pretty good shape considering the life it has had. It's been a real love/hate affair with that beast... but like us, it's still here and shaping up for the last round... so it has my respect.

Greetings everyone, once more from the VESTAS SAILROCKET operations base in Walvis Bay , Namibia.

We arrived yesterday afternoon after a round-a-bout tour of Africa via DOHA in Qatar, Johannesberg, Cape Town (overnight stopover) and then a final flight into Walvis Bay itself. I've never seen Walvis Bay from the air. It looks tiny. Emerging from that tiny cabin into the glaring Namibian sun, I mused to myself was like coming out the tip of an intravenous needle right into the heart of the speed sailing world.