Morning! So we have been secret squirrels for the last 24 hours and it may look like we haven't achieved much....well, we haven't....however we had a plan to head further east to see if we could hook into some favourable current to bring us in to Sydney. At first this looked like it was going to pan out quite nicely but the wind started to do some unexpected things, meaning we just couldn't get out there.
Then we found ourselves in some unfavourable current which we are only now getting out of. We wanted to be offshore as every time I have been up this way and headed inshore, the wind has been sucked up by the interaction between sea and land meaning it's always been a very slow route up to Sydney. We are resigning ourselves to this now and any hope of catching the front runners is pretty much gone I think.
With only 270 nautical miles to go we are very much in the closing stages of the race, the last day was a chance to try one last thing but sadly it didn't work out. We are still battling onwards though and working hard to stay ahead of our friends on Dare to Lead (Hi Dale!)
TTFN!
M