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Duplicat - Sunday 14th 14.21 51.50



This is not really sailing, not able to fly anything bigger than a pocket handkerchief jib, we have forgotten what our spinnaker looks like - not been out of the hatch for days. This leg from Mindelo has been either calm and you need to motor or 30 knots of wind with a new record gust of 42 this morning. We had a day when we could fly our code zero earlier this week but that has been taken down and stowed away. Life on board has deteriorated as sleep is now hard due to the sea conditions and you expend so much energy just moving around or trying to do stuff.
On the plus side we have a new speed record of 18 knots made this morning surfing down a huge sea and the distance to go has gone down to 525 with a time of arrival of just over 80 hours but of course that may well change.


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