Morning all,
We are currently engaged in the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint and we entered the gate yesterday with our Code 3 (heavyweight spinnaker) flying raring to go.
As we crossed the line, we had an unfortunate squall, we broached, blew the tack on the Code 3 and recovered it... to our horror, in tatters!
It got rushed below to hospital and after much deliberation it was decided that the scale of repair was to grand for our small machine in the time given before Cape Town. What a disastrous way to enter the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint!
We limped along all night under white sails and are hoping that conditions will not be too well suited to our Code 3 from here on in.
Anyhow, almost 1000 miles to go before Cape Town, and on these boats that can quite easily mean under five days so we are starting to feel like we are getting close.
Cheers, Dale