Hello Terricolas, we are still making good progress towards Scotland, Mike’s (Ferguson) Land. We are still not in the front at all, but we are on our way. It’s been a beautiful few days of sailing, reaching, fast, challenging... Today we had a proper KO. We were sailing through squalls, Nico was at the helm, when a proper gust came through, vang off, main out, nothing stopped us from broaching. We were properly horizontal, I saw the crew holding OK so I stayed calm, reassured that everything will be ok, and dress the primary winch with the retrieval sheet. They started grinding it and I blew the tack and we started to bring our Code 3 back on board. She was OK, although the luff line came out so we spent the next three hours feeding it back into place and we hoisted her back up asap. Now we are flying along, with a good story for a barbecue and not much ground lost. One of our biggest broaches in the entire circumnavigation and it happened in the Atlantic, respect.
I love the Atlantic. We are sailing close to Flemish Cap, the area of George Clooney’s movie, The Perfect Storm, but in this case we are full main and spinnaker up flying at 12 knots. Anyway, we are trying to stay with the broken pieces of the Gulf Stream, and by all means stay away from the Labrador Current. The achievement of the day is that a couple of hours ago we’ve just circumnavigated the world, so all round the worlders are very happy and I’m so proud of them and what they’ve achieved, as going around the world needs a lot a courage, endurance, patience and human skills. Vamos Crew! Vamos Punta!
Nano, Angus and the Punta Riders