….and we present you: the sun!! For the first time in about a week (ok maybe 4 days) we see the sun and it is finally getting warm again. What lifts our spirits on hotelplanner.com even more, is that we constantly catching up with the fleet, being the fastest boat for a while. We are now just Read more about Day 25 – Friday 24th Nov[…]
The first time our team really won anything. I wonder what long term effects that will have. What might be sad is, that we will likely not be there for prize-giving. We put some effort into this sprint, starting with analysing the performance of the other boats and estimating what time we would need to Read more about Day 22 – 21st November, Tuesday 20:00[…]
This morning we received the tragic news of the death of a crew member of team GB. Our thoughts are first and foremost with his family and friends and team mates. My sincere condolences to all. The entire fleet celebrated a memorial service on all the boats today. It was good and I think we Read more about Most tragic news[…]
We had good and bad news over the last 24h. First it was Jess’ Birthday (Jeremy that is), but there we have to start with the bad news. Apparently, across the fleet boat run low on gas – us included. That hints that the bottles were not filled properly in Cape Town. The unfortunate consequence Read more about Day 18 – 17th November[…]
Feeling Blue We are flying! Making good speed and in the right direction. We currently have our Code 2 Spinnaker up and making near record 24h mileage of just under 300nm. We have been the fastest boat in the fleet yesterday (over a 6h period). Our aim is to make it to Fremantle in time Read more about Day 16 – Nov 15th 7:45 (after watch)[…]
Thinking back to the last stopover, brings back a lot of beautiful little and big moments. Little thinks like the nice seafood platter lunch I shared with GG one day and night things like getting together with my family. I can’t write about all of it, and will pick a few highlights – in summary: Read more about Cape Town Stopover[…]
The last few days we have been beating against the wind, on some tacks sailing a few hundred miles and only getting a couple closer to our destination. This was tough on man and material and we decided to go further South to look for lighter winds coming from a better direction. This was also Read more about Leg 3 – Day 12[…]