We are used to cooking at an angle when the boat is healing, but this time it was 45 degrees Celsius… Leg 7 Day 17 (Seattle to Panama) – Tuesday 15/05/2018 The day after my Bistro watch. I had an amazing long sleep in the sail locker. The code 1 bunk was free and the Read more about Cooking at 45 degrees[…]
We have been down the coast of the US and reached California and the Mexican peninsula Bahia California (the largest peninsula in the world). At the time we still had good winds and were surfing down some waves. Leg 7 (Seattle to Panama) Day 13 – Friday 11th May It has been a while. Pretty Read more about California Surfin‘[…]
This leg feel like the start of the homecoming as we will go back in to the homely waters of the Atlantic. Yet, first we have to go down the American coast to reach the Panama Canal: Day 3 – 1st May 2018 I’m back in the watchleader bunk. I have not had this bunk Read more about Start of the home-coming (Leg 7 – Seattle to Panama)[…]
It’s day 4 on the long Pacific crossing. I didn’t get to write anything yet, but not because of the sea – I had to get my phone charged first. The first 24h of the journey we were motoring, as the start (a Monte Carlo start) was postponed due to too light winds. I was Read more about Leg 6 – Qingdao to Seattle Part 1 “Half Way”[…]
….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[…]