Morning all.
We ran yesterday all day with our Code 3 (heavyweight) spinnaker, following our rig repairs and made up some quite good progress, but then dropped it last night to run under our Yankee 3 as the guys were struggling to helm in the messy sea state kicked up by the big depression south of us. We still made ok progress through the night because the boat is still able to pick up a couple of surfs on the chunky swell.
This morning is cold as we are feeling the frigid air behind the front and the seascape is beautiful in the sun that keeps breaking through. I had a nice chat with Chris Kobusch this morning on VHF as Qingdao has been our sailing partner for the last 12 hours. Amazing that after 18 days you can be sailing alongside another boat despite taking vastly different tracks. We are approaching the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint so hoping for spinnaker conditions.
Dale out