Race 12 - Day 13
Skipper Report
09 July

Good morning all,

A slow day of progress to report out here, we are 482 nautical miles (nm) west north west from Tory Island and at time of writing this blog our Barometer shows us to be in the centre of the high pressure system.

With 8 knots of wind speed we are trying to sail north east so that when the wind fills in from that direction it will be a reach to the finish line.

It is disappointing to see boats that we were ahead of sail in more breeze and pass us during the last couple of days mostly due to routing decisions made a week ago, that is ocean sailing for you. Big shout out to Skipper Matt Mitchell and the PSP logistics Team for making the bold decision and sailed a lot of extra miles to avoid this high pressure.

We are not letting our slow speed get us down and are keeping the boat ship-shape maintaining gear and cleaning. Maeva (on board media crew member) held a movie night last night of footage shot so far. We are in for a treat this morning as Maeve and Malcom are going to record the /HotelPlanner.com version of a breakfast TV show, an April Rellis production featuring interviews with chef Fritz Müeller, and weather girl Lydia Ho.

Overnight we found more wind thankfully and have 170nm to the finish line between Tuns Buoy and Shroove Lighthouse. The Code 1 (lightweight spinnaker) is flying well and we even had time for some yoga on the foredeck as the sun was rising. We eagerly await race positions to see how we have fared against the competition.

I will probably have time for one more blog before we finish this race but in case I don't, thank you for the support to all you guys at home.

Conall