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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Tomahawk
It’s a bloody hard decision when looking at the yellow brick position we are right up there in the chocolates but having received the latest forecasts and run the models over the next 24hrs we were in line for a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Five
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Team Jolokia
Gaël, the first paraplegic shift supervisor ever aboard a Volvo Ocean 60 For the Rolex Middle Sea Race, Team Jolokia once again shows the strength of diversity with yet another first. The role watch supervisor is occupied, for the first … Continue reading
Posted in Day Four
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Optimum Aspida Saxo Bank
After a long, and at times frustrating, night we have caught and overtaken Black Pearl and B2 leaving only Cantankerous and Mascalzone Latino a couple of miles ahead of us in our class. The crew worked non-stop to keep the … Continue reading
Posted in Day Four
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Scarlet Oyster
After a slow day Scarlet is around 15NM NW of the island of Filicudi, wind is light at 3 to 4 knots and the crew have worked hard all day to keep boat speed up in hot conditions. Our position … Continue reading
Posted in Day Three
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Grey Goose
It looks like the wind is filling in at last..! Before the race we said it would be a ‘drift off’ along the north side of Sicily and it certainly has been. Not the best conditions for a 45 ton … Continue reading
Posted in Day Four
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Southern Child
The RMSR started at 1100 this morning in Grand Harbour with hundreds of onlookers lining the harbour walls. In the harbour the wind was flookie and shifty. We were the second start and were on the line as the cannon … Continue reading
Posted in Day Three
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Tomahawk
As the sun appeared over the horizon this morning Stromboli was close, very close, we had found some ladders during the night, and a few sail changes too, the stay sails had been dropped , the mizzen to. The start … Continue reading
Posted in Day Three
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