by firstclass | Apr 11, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
The last two days have been far from easy, as we approached the continental shelf off Cabo Frio near Rio de Janeiro we were met by the nasty Brazilian south-flowing current. The deep current is pushed to the surface and strengthens to a strong flow where the bottom of...
by firstclass | Apr 11, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
We’ve been at sea nearly 6 days, half the world is on holiday for a long Easter weekend, for us it’s been more wind and waves as we sail north east hoping to soon reach the trade winds. Ahead of us the bottom corner of Brasil with Rio de Janeiro and a...
by firstclass | Apr 11, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
We’ve been at sea for two days, i wrote an earlier update which somehow was never sent so here is a summary of our start of the fourth leg of the Global Ocean Race, Punta del Este Uruguay to Charleston US. The start in Punta was relatively quiet although I was a...
by firstclass | Mar 5, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
We are in Punta del Este! Celebrations Celebrations Celebrations! We made it! We are in Punta del Este Uruguay, 35 days at sea! We have sailed through gale force winds, we reached across the depths of the Southern Ocean with albatrosses to guard our progress, we...
by firstclass | Mar 5, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
We have just over 400 miles to go to the finish line in Punta del Este, the permanent cloud cover of the past few days has broken up during the night and i stood my watch in the cockpit as a magnificent sunrise brought summer to our world. Since we left the icy...
by firstclass | Feb 27, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
I guess we all assumed that once turned the corner from the Horn everything was going to be easy, I certainly did, so I was a little surprised when last night the wind piped up to a fierce 35-40 knots dead on the nose in a nasty chop and a mysterious 2 knots adverse...
