Icon had a great run from Victoria to Naniamo - we along with DragonFly held back at the start to avoid the mayhem & crashes (probably a good thing as the wind was up considerably). We quickly passed the fleet on the heels of DragonFly at 16+ knots. We took the inside route to Naniamo (Baynes Channel & Porlier Pass). Managed to sneak ahead of DragonFly near Stuart in a big hole as the rest of the fleet sailed up to us. Near Ganges we caught the new westerly and had a very fast reach up to Porlier - managed to transit before the currents shut the door and finished in Naniamo 12 minutes behind DragonFly...

Ended up with 2nd in our Divison (a really comeback) and 2nd to DragonFly on elapsed time - those guys sailed a great race with many challenges. The entire crew was exhausted...