Crew Blog

On the wet road again

19 June 2008

Hull & Humber's Sonny with the D250 trophy

Joining in Halifax and taking part in the democracy 250 race was an amazing experience. Took me a day or so to get my sea legs as it was really rough weather, we managed to win with only a minute between us and westernaustrlia2011.com, I felt proud to be part of the crew once again on ye old wet road.

It’s currently day four on the way to Cork, so far it has been a long process of trying to catch wind for the past few days. Working our way through thick fog has been very difficult especially in such light winds; keeping a good look out for other vessels, icebergs and anything else which we may hit into. Everyone has also been working hard to keep the yacht moving as much as possible to keep up with the rest of the fleet.

Early this morning the fog had lifted and the wind came in quite nicely. Ever since then we have been travelling with 8 knots of speed and the crew are glad to be moving at last.

The girls have been writing a song about Konrad the cameraman who lives in a caravan which kept us all amused for an hour.

It feels great getting back on Hull & Humber, as the last time I was on board was the delivery back to Gosport after the Wilberforce race, which seems such a long time ago now, just hope we can bring her home in first place, because the crew have worked tremendously well and really do deserve it.

Sonny Allott
Reporting from Ull n Umber

1. Rod Murdoch, Lincoln 20 June 2008

Hey Sonny!
Great to see you back on board with the D250 trophy. Lets hope we beat NY and you get your hands on the final trophy. See you in Cork! Good luck!
Rod

2. Pat Morgan, Bristol 21 June 2008

Your looking good guys.. Good steady progress.. we can’t ask for more.. Well done as the weather sounds quite extreme to say the least..! Still willing H&H;another 1st!!!

3. Anne Streatfeild, Dartmouth 22 June 2008

Great to see you back on board Sonny, bet you are having so much fun, at least I thought you were hilarious on the Wilberforce! Looking forward to seeing you again in Cork!

Anne xx

4. mike and jerry, london 23 June 2008

hi sonny
hope your well we have just loged on to see how your doing all looks very good.
wish we were with you but stuck in london working very hard as always.
no doubt your working hard too. keep it up and see if you can bring another victory to hull along with the tigers.
we will keep a close check on how you are doing so if you get chance email us back
best of luck we are all very proud of you

Uncle Mike.Jerry and all the ferriby crew

5. jerry, hull,england 27 June 2008

hi sonny and the rest of the crew,you are doing amazingly well,pull that sheet in and bring h&h;in first !happy birthday tomorrow,love from all the family.
jerry

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