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Mad Fish - North enough?



We have been pushing our way north as fast as possible to hook into the low pressures coming from the US to the UK. Yesterday we finally took the spinnaker down at about 1400 local when we were doing a consistent 9 knots in over 20 knots of wind. We ran with the main up all night until around 0900 local, 1200 UTC when the cold front went through and the wind cranked round 90 degrees. We are now heading for the Azores, tearing along at 8 kmots+ with 22 knots of wind just forward of the beam.

This has made Ethan happy as if we are not doing 7 knots towards the Azores or more he gives me much abuse on how much faster we should be going and what sails we should put up! I hope we are ok on the rest of the fleet and we haven't been too extreme. Holding on tight with 1423 miles to go......






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