Davie, in reply to your post about Guernsey. Looks like too many people throwing in their unfounded opinions Don't know if you saw my previous post, where I had contacted Keith Mott. Very well known convoyer with plenty of experience of liberating birds at Guernsey. He told me that over the years he must have liberated birds in the region of 15 different times there. Instead of listening to all these negative comments as far as I can see, we should be taking note of somebody who knows what he is talking about. I specifically asked him how the birds cleared, his answer was that there was never any problem. One other point. It was mostly young birds that he was convoying, so old birds should cope even better. Hope this helps to quell some of the doubts about Guernsey, no reason why we shouldn't go and have a good race (only thing wrong - we should be going more than just once). Alastair at Rosyth