Ahoy!
Like every day, it was another day full of stories! Like a few boats in the fleet, we do have as well some little issues with the boat due to the weather conditions, like no windex (a wind vane at the top of the mast to show us the direction of the wind), we had some issue with compass, with instruments, with the generator, etc. Don't worry, I don't know a single sailboat that doesn't have issues, that's how it is. It is constantly moving, bouncing, under salty conditions, wet, so the mechanics suffer on the sea :)
We had the spinnaker up and we were on sight of Greenings in the day, then unfortunately we lost them due to some effects making our boat kicking to port, which will be fixed in Cape Town.
On a port tack, the boat with the pressure of the spinnaker we couldn't keep it because the result would be a broach and probably the end of a spinnaker. So, we lost some ground on Greenings and Dare To Lead and probably other boats but I prefer to protect the boat and keep the big picture in my head of racing round of the world.
It was good to have the sun back, wet weather gear drying, port holes open, then a night with all those stars, lots of shooting stars, and we saw some meteors falling in the sea. It looks like a distress flare but coming from the sky! Lovely!
Nearly at the end of the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint, which compared to the leg so far, it was more of a slowdown situation. I am not sure about the result as we had to add distance, we had to reduce sail for conservative reasons as I explained, so we will see how we did.
We are doing the best we can and that's the first aspect in competition to me - do your best with yourself then you'll see the comparison with the fleet!
Sail hard, Stay Stormy,
GT out