After the finish Gavin Brady said, “it was more of an adventure than a race!”
Second boat to finish was Jim Delegat’s Volvo 70 Giacomo which is leading on IRC. Three more boats crossed the finish line in the last few hours: V5: 04:50:06; Wired: 06:16:48 and Vamos: 06:31:37.
Steinlager 11 retired with damage to the forestay. They are motoring to Fiji.
Meanwhile, the rumour that ocean racing kills romance has been proved false, even if electronic messages from one boat to another are read by all and sundry. From Bex (from Django) to Ben (Vamos).
Hi Honey
Well the days are long and the nights are lonely without you.
Hope all is well on the great ship Vamos.
I keep getting messages from shore to tell me not to worry that your epirb keeps going off, surely it cant be that bad at the front of the fleet!
This race seems to be character building for us with a massive pounding up wind then no breeze at all.
Finally the sea gods are being nice to us this afternoon as last night we did plenty of sail changes between the hours of darkness last night A1, A2, zero, A1, zero, number 1 nearly then A1 this morning.
AP & Lefty let us all have a massive sleep in this morning I got 4 hours sleep in a row woohoo!! Had a coffee and and up & go this morning and am on fire once again!
We are currently boosting with big blue A2 VMG of 10+ kts to fiji, my top speed so far of 12.45kts only to be beaten by Seamus 5 mins later, awesome sailing!
On the menu today we have cottage pie with parmesan cheese and tobasco sauce with side of mini carrots for lunch.
Dinner is a leg of roast lamb and a side of mini carrots with parmesan and tobasco. Eating like kings!
We are having an awesome match race with Squealer and are planning a roast pork dinner on the finish line!
Get back in front of big brother on V5 and nail Wired will ya!
Brownie & Scotty hope you guys are breaking down Benos for me.
I hope you all are enjoying the gentle tones of Potters snoring, AP started snoring last night and I felt right at home.
Lots of love to you all big kisses and kick ass….. see you mid day ish on sat.
Bex xoxox
Bex Hielkema Team Django Yachting Nurse, Bowman & freeze dried master chef
By Event media, as sourced from www.mysailing.com.au
