Hi,
Okay... we did mean to gybe there then…
Ello folks. So here we are, we’re now sailing in a SW direction which is really smooth with a following sea at a steady 11 knots. It was a bit of a nail biting night with little sleep, so we had a 12 o’clock crew meeting on our tactics, our development into the race and how far certain milestones were (this ever looming Scoring Gate and the Doldrums Corridor). The main chunk of the meeting was done with a white board and trying to explain how apparent wind works. We have been very VERY lucky on more than a couple of occasions that Hugo’s homemade anti wrap net has got us out of trouble more times than I have fingers on my left hand! And we are only four days in (I think you’ll be reading this on Day 5 though). Cheers to James Cubitt for getting the bungee!
So, after the apparent wind lecture we briefly learnt about VMG (velocity made good). This basically means the quickest way from point A to B is not always the shortest distance), then Jerome updated the 12:00 positions on the leaderboard. I was on deck at the time, but all I could hear was laughing and cheering which was a relief on my end
Right long story short... had the mother of all wraps while writing this. Spent two hours getting it down. Code 3 Spinnaker now up, sailing the pants off Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam, and trying to catch Visit Sanya, China 10 nautical miles ahead at sunset. Must sleep now, in short watch system.
Well done Hugo and a big well done crew. zzzzz