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Brainstorm - 12/1/22 Passing Pietertje



After a thrilling first night we spotted Pietertje on the horizon. We saw he had his parasailor (a special and enormous self jibbing spinaker) on his 65ft Swan from the 70’s so catching up with him on our 49ft X is quite the challenge. However we are not afraid to hoist our 100m2 womper next to our 73m2 main sheet 😎 on our modern 20’s machine. We knew he was afraid to do this and we could smell it.

 

The sun and excitement raised the temperature to wear shorts, something we’d expected on the 5th or 3rd day at the earliest (heading straight south). It quickly became clear we had the upper hand and Pietertje was a great sport in acknowledging this by not answering any of our many joyful radio calls. To be fair they could have been busy with more fun stuff with a crew of 3 men and 4 women 😏 however we won’t know as also this question wasn’t answered 😂

 

The day did have a downside: learning that the Iridium (what we use for satellite data and calls) “mail and surf” app needs an additional download to do the actually surfing. Something you need to surf the internet for in order to do🤬

 

Worst is this means we can’t track the other contestants (mail, calling and weather grib files we can do). A good solution was found in asking our mate Remmert to share daily updates in the form of compressed screenshots via email. Our hero!



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