by firstclass | Dec 5, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
After days of being punished and thrown around things have definitely turned for the better, we have emerged from our dry suits stinking like dead rats and are enjoying a lovely spinnaker run in a hot sunshine and gentle 20-25 knots of wind. I guess conditions like...
by firstclass | Dec 5, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
If you are looking at a non-surgical equivalent to a gastric band look no further, come to the great south where we’ll make you feel a constant knot around your stomach to lose weight. In the past...
by firstclass | Dec 2, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
We spent the night in a windless hole with a 2-3 knots current dragging us west, we can only blame lack of research and preparation for not knowing about this adverse river in our way, i guess everyone had to cross it but we certainly got the worst of it as we had no...
by firstclass | Dec 2, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
I didnt have the easiest of starts, mentally, I think the stress in getting things ready in Cape Town wore me out and I have to admit to a very tough first 48 hours. We have all been there in nasty weather thinking why the hell we’re doing it and when you are...
by firstclass | Dec 1, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
A tough start for leg 2 of the Global Ocean Race We’re at sea admiring a beautiful sunset and in the distance we can just make Cape Good Hope that we are leaving behind us, this will most likely be the last piece of land we’ll see till we arrive in New...
by firstclass | Dec 1, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon ready to set off for leg 2 of the Global Ocean RaceSays Marco I cannot believe it has been over three weeks since we arrived to Cape Town, time seems to have dissipated like the clouds that blow over Table Mountain when the Southeaster...
