Sunrise - ARC2021 - Day # 12 on the SUNRISE

Just to notifiy: Yesterday, 1st of December 2021 at 22:32 UTC we officially passed the halfway mark to Saint Lucia! From now on it is shorter to continue our journey than turning around, a kinda strange feeling. The middle of nowhere. We celebrated this event with a delicious Risotto, made by our captain, and a ice-cold can of beer. It is continiously becoming hotter with the sea temperature of around 27° already!

This morning we lost two halyards, the genoa halyard and one of the two spinnaker halyards. Seems like both lines wrapped around our improvised fixture on the very top of the sail and they gave in simultaniously. From now on we are using our very last option to set a foresail, the second spinnaker halyard, and hope that this one will last for the remainder of the trip !

Our speed and course to Saint Lucia currently looks great and we even ranked top 50 in the overall race leaderboard. Hence our motivation is great and we continue to push the limits of the boat and ourselves!