Good morning!
After we got stuck in a wind hole, we are now sailing again towards Punta del Este. Chocolate bars and Rocky-Road-Chocolate-Cake did help keeping the crew morale up, but nothing made the team happier than the first bit of breeze that got our Clipper 70 Qingdao moving again.
The boats north of us are moving too, but the guys and girls to the south got stuck in a wind hole and were barely moving at midnight. Almost the whole Clipper Race fleet is within 40nM of us, (only Sanya Serenity Coast, Greenings, and Nasdaq are further away), which I think is quite remarkable after 6,000nM and more than four weeks of ocean racing.
With now less than 500nM to go, and probably all boats heading towards the same waypoint, it will be a close and exciting race to the finish.
Fair winds and a following sea!
Chris