Hello Qingers!
Over 400 miles into the race and as you can see by the Race Viewer, there’s not much separating most of the fleet.
Until Virtual Mark St John, we are all in one big drag race, in more or less the same weather. As the wind slowly veers round and builds, it will give us better and better conditions so we should only speed up. Just now we’re spending all our time looking for that extra half knot of speed to try to catch up with those ahead.
We’re having some really excellent sailing conditions in the sun and the mood is good. We had brief encounters with a whale and dolphins in the day. The new leggers are taking to life on board brilliantly and I think this is the first leg with new crew where we’ve had no sea sickness on board, so that’s definitely a win!
Love to those at home,
Henry, Phil and the dragon riders