The boat is still at a ridiculous angle and has been for 2 full days now and
probably at least one more. It is great fun helming but any jobs below are
ridiculously hard to do and sleeping is almost impossible too - as one of our
crew put it today, "It would be hard to design an environment where sleeping was
more difficult."
The race is going well though - don't worry too much about race viewer
in terms of positions as they are measuring stright to San Fran which is a route
none of us will take - the map is a more important indicator of how we are doing. We are currently about 2nd or 3rd and are in 'stealth' mode. we are hoping to hold or improve on our position while we're "invisible". (Each boat can do this twice during the race. Gold Coast have already done it once)
There is a long way to go still though so taking nothing for granted but it is good to be competitive though.
Still having a lot of fun here though and it will be so much more comfortable once the wind turns more westerly and the boat flattens out.
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