After setting off across the start line off Muscat (Oman) yesterday, Mark Covell, media crew on board Oman Sail’s A100 Majan set back this report… Over the next six hours we sailed under eight different sail combinations to cope with the wind’s fickle mood. We saw as much as 26 knots and as little as zero. Why is it in so many races and crossings the first night at sea, Mother Nature and King Neptune gang up and tries to catch you out? This morning we’re blasting along at 20 knots, under light cloud, trying to get as far down the track as possible before the wind drops and the large sea state takes over to slap, rock and shake Majan… Read Mark’s report in full below in Race News…