by firstclass | Jan 16, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
It looks like 2012 started just like 2011 had finished, with a big mess, another spinnaker blown and trashed in the water, this time the masthead A2 spinnaker, the biggest one… somewhere somehow there was a weak point as it finally blew in mild 18-20...
by firstclass | Jan 16, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
We had been doing great all night shaving mile after mile from Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron’s lead over us, we were flying the smallest spinnaker, a bullet proof job called the A5, a sail that can be used even if 40 knots of wind, which is not far...
by firstclass | Jan 16, 2012 | Global Ocean Race
We are sailing in a lovely sunshine, broad reaching towards the northern tip of South island, New Zealand of course, some 500 miles to the North East of us. From there we’ll have a final stretch of just over 100 miles of tricky sailing in the infamous...
by firstclass | Dec 30, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
So here we are in yet another 45 knots stinker, making excellent progress under staysail and reefed main, occasionally surfing high teens. The front came and went and we were left with that nasty situation where you have massive seas and decreasing winds…...
by firstclass | Dec 30, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
In the unlikely setting of a sunny Southern Ocean day, flying the biggest spinnaker under a blue sky, we dream of home, of friends, family and loved ones (and beer and steak). It’s friday and you’ll be heading home to your families soon so we...
by firstclass | Dec 30, 2011 | Global Ocean Race
Yesteday we passed Cape Leeuwin, about 500 miles to our north and have now, geographically speaking, entered the Pacific Ocean… we have just under 2500 miles left to sail in this second leg of the Global Ocean Race and after all the nasty weather we had to...
