Monthly Archives: October 2011

This picture shows the number of people which is needed to hoist a spinnaker. As many sailors as possible on the winches on deck to hoist a spinnaker. We are “peeling” – this means we are hoisting one sail in … Continue reading →

Boris from Alligator SLO 747 (SERBIA) 1000CEST “Getting on fine, 40nm from Messina Strait, 25nm off the coast. We have light winds of around 6 knots, but doing 5 knots in boatspeed. We had some problems yesterday, tearing our gennaker … Continue reading →

For Fans of OILTANKING JUNO. Go to:  www.ustream.com/channel/junoracingteam They are streaming live video each day! All of the Juno crew are members of the Royal Malta Yacht Club, skipper David Anastasi telephoned the club this afternoon to say that all … Continue reading →

Running under (repaired) A2 spinnaker through the straights with Italy to starboard, Sicily to port. Not too much breeze but we are trickling along nicely. Opposition got away a bit so having to work hard to reel them back in. … Continue reading →

Here we are passing the Straights of Messina at 8.30am this morning, 21 hours after the start in Malta. Beautiful morning after rain and wind and eventually nothing around 3am. We had the 3 “eggs” – the 000 at the … Continue reading →

I can see many boats around me the stream of wind is parallel to the sicilian coast a shifts very much un predictably weather predictions are quite different from reality we managed to gain quite much water round capo passero … Continue reading →