I made a decision around ten months ago not to write about food produced onboard whilst racing around the world. Thus, leaving this culinary subject for the crew to expose in their crew blogs along with the code brown stories and tales of life crammed into a Clipper 70.
However, Race 12: The Legenderry Race had a surprise in store in the form of Leg 8 crew member and "Ready Steady Cook" contestant Neil Kolher who, along with "Jennyfluer" (Code name) Legs 4,7 and 8, have been producing outstanding food from our 3 star Michelin galley.
On the racing front we blew the head of our Code 1 (lightweight spinnaker) two nights ago with damage to both the luff and leach, however the team got "stuck in" working around the clock and 28 hours later its back in its deployment bag waiting to go aloft. The fleet positions are all still close with what looks like the mandatory park up and pecking order re-shuffle forecast for the closing stages of the race.
The next few days are going to be interesting for sure!
Cheers Bob.
(PS you can now also read yesterday's blog which was received and uploaded today)