Clear blue sky over Hackney as we set out but we could soon see the approaching high grey cloud to the south west.

The light southerly breeze was just what we needed after a windy spell going back to early November.  I set up full sail 1.5 with green race which worked ok.  Ashley had a diamond LE with green race uprights.  MW was working on her Rev 2 stack.

My intention was to do some more work on the 1.5 JMH stack today.  I had done a bit of fettling of knots and link lengths on Saturday at home.  Now for the moment of truth!  The first four kites seemed well behaved compared to how they had felt in a stronger breeze a few weeks ago.  The link lines between the two sets of four had been tied and ‘put somewhere safe’.  They were quickly ‘found’ and initially tied to the leading edges of the back four kites.  I had been worried about the tight loops but setting the larks heads was fine.

As with the Rev 1 JMH 8 stack at Dieppe we got a very satisfactory ‘first fix’ result…

The cloud had thickened substantially by the time we left Blackheath, the sun long gone, but the rain was not due until later!

Felix