180nm
South of Verdes, 5 knots boat speed, 13.7 Knots wind
speed, Sail Plan A3 spinnaker, Stay sail and Main.
Fleet is grouped between Dragon right of course and Delta
Lloyd left of course with only 140nm between us and approx
16 miles in difference with last position report showing
Dragon ahead, with the rest of the lead fleet bunched
in the middle separated by only a few miles. Both the
Dragon and Delta Lloyd are positioned to make a gain.
Let's wait and see.
Delta Lloyd 5th position just made up +19 miles on leader
and lost -9nm to Dragon, +19 on Russians, in last 3 hours.
Puma leading us by 70nm, E3 by 63nm, E4 by 36nm, Dragon
by 16, Russians behind us by 21nm, Tela behind us by
48nm, Teln behind us by 54nm.
We await the next weather data, as we study a tropical
storm approaching in the next 12hrs from the east. It's
75 miles wide and heading straight for the fleet's path.
We await further data due at 1800hrs, but feel its too
big to sail around. We are preparing for a busy night
of sail changes, water, provisions food, likely sail
positioning preparation for easy access, get crew fed
and rested to have max energy for next 24 hrs. |
There
could be big wins and losses in how the fleet manage
this obstacle. We will have to wait and see. These storms
suck up and disturb the direction of the wind. Let's
hope we get our timing right.
Crew all well with Husty (Ryan Houston). Cold has cleared
up, Edwin's (Edwin O'Connor) leg looks ok but we will
monitor. Mat's birthday (Matthew Gregory) with crew singing
happy b.day was a good start to the day. Sander (Pluijm)
the media crew caught all on camera. We ordered 9 different
flavours of freeze dried food but due to our late entry,
Deirdre (logistics manager) only received 4 flavours
(3 chicken and1 beef) and we are having to be very imaginative
while eating. |
