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Kathryn has decided to take the day off the blog entering, so I'll be filling in for today...
In order for yesterday not to have been a total waste, we decided that the day of sunshine, sparkly blue water and minimal wind would be dedicated to sleeping and tanning. There was no way of foreseeing or avoiding it, as all forecasts told that we'd have wind aplenty. Guess that's what you get for trusting a weather forecast...
But seriously, there was not a huge amount that could be done in the drifter conditions we encountered, so we set a watch schedule for two people at a time to keep the boat going, and gave the others strict instructions to relax to the max.
Keeping the spinnaker flying in 0-to-nothing knots of wind is an intricate skill that we were forced to master. We figured that the hard yards to be done in this race are not during the 30 knot winds, but rather in the inevitable ghostly calmness experienced in this part of the Atlantic.
So taking the positives out of yesterday, we figured that, statistically, everyone in the fleet has to do their fair bit of bobbing, and that we were just getting ours out of the way before we come screaming into Rio.
Watch this space.
The new kid on the blog,
Brennan
PS: Loving the mails, keep them coming! The blog entries are sometimes difficult to read, so rather send a mail to teamciaobella@gmail.com.
PPS: Theresa, Theresa, looking desperately for a translator & tour guide to show us around Rio. We think you will be perfect and holding fingers crossed you can join us!
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