Monday, 25 June 2012

The Atlantic - 24 June


Sorry for the lack of news recently, as I am sure you understand it’s been pretty full on. It seems that everything has being chucked at us in the last 48 hours, and I've been too knackered to even think of writing. I’ve had 3 hours sleep in the last 24 and as anyone who knows me will know, this is not enough.

We're now in final planning of tactical moves for the end game. You may have seen our tactics of using the weather systems to the south to gain favourable wind directions later.  This meant sacrificing our position in the short term to gain the advantage, and for a while it looked as if the mast head problems we had (see Ben’s Skipper reports), might have slowed us so that we missed the weather system. Anyway there is now growing optimism that we could be on the podium at the end of the leg, but there are still many miles to go, and plenty of things can get in the way.

I’m starting to look forward to Derry, there are loads of activities on offer and it will be good to have some time to get myself back together and enjoy the social scene.

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