Race 1 - Day 30
Skipper Report
19 September

So...

We have spent 12 of the last 24 hours in a wind hole. A tad demoralising to say the least, but I personally used the time to catch up on as much sleep as I could. We have the slightest puff of wind from the northwest now as I type that might help to get us through to the other side. We are close with Garmin, Unicef, and Liverpool 2018, who have all been on the AIS (Automatic Identification System) screen in the past hour. It must be exciting watching everything on the viewer at home.

Stealth Mode has been fun. The brief given to crew was to arrive on watch as stealthily as possible. We've had all of Port Watch hiding under sails and behind the mast to number off. April Rellis hid in an orange lycra morph outfit, but I think the prize goes to Adam Cristol who managed to fit himself in a sail bag, covered in bits of rope then climbed out the forward hatch and wormed his way down the deck to the cockpit without being noticed, only for us all to ignore him as soon as we heard him number off at 3am watch changeover. We all had a good laugh about this and the photos will be good. Here's hoping for some more breeze.

Conall