Position: 23,19.8S , 43,16.50W Speed: 15 knots, Course: 8 deg. What an incredible afternoon and night. I have never been in so much rain. It has been one squall after another with huge down pours. Of course this reeked havoc on the wind. It was a 15 hour work out-changing sails one after another. We […]

Magro, elegante con la sua maglietta bianca da Pirate of the Caribbean, in grandisma, porta i 47 anni come i baffi, sempre neri come il carbone e i capelli. Come un ragazzino insomma, anche dopo 6.100 miglia in pieno oceano e oltre venti giorni della seconda durissima tappa dellavolvo Ocean Race, la Città del Capo […]

Position: 26,7.36S , 44,19.28W Speed: 7 knots, Course: 333 deg. It has been very slow going for the past 24 hours. Added to that there seems to be no pattern to the weather. There is no trend. The wind is blowing basically directly from Rio so we are making very slow progress to the finish. […]

Position: 25,30.60S , 44,13.59W Speed: 11 knots, Course: 40 deg. After the last sked we came to a grinding halt. It was depressing to see that Brasil1 and ABN AMRO Two had made big gains and were in the new wind while we were becalmed. Shortly thereafter we got hit with a squall. It was […]

Position: 27,54.18S , 44,43.83W Speed: 10 knots, Course: 342 deg. Just slogging away upwind in 15 knots today. The good news is that there has been more wind than the forecast but still upwind which is slow going. Beautiful weather though – clear skies – sailing in our shorts and T-shirts. Fairly smooth sea. Nice […]

Position: 32,34.83S , 47,11.37W Speed: 11 knots, Course: 26 deg. The fleet has had very light wind for the past 48 hours. We have gone through two transitions; one around a disintegrating low pressure cell and last night traversing a high pressure cell that moved across the course from west to east. The team onboard […]

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