A new personal best
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Mon 23 Jul 2012 10:08
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18:43.3S 154:27.6E 813 miles
covered, 248 miles to go
The wind strengthened and backed exactly as
predicted and yesterday we managed to cover 244 miles in one day, a new
personal best for Anastasia. We would have liked to take some of the
credit ourselves, but to be quite honest 99% of the helming has been done by the
autopilot, set to maintain an optimum wind angle.
The good wind has meant we that we have managed to
make up for being becalmed for six hours at the start of the race and moved back
up through the fleet to second place. If we continue at 10 knots then
our ETA at the entrance to the reef is about 9pm tomorrow night. We then
have another 110 miles through the barrier reef to reach Mackay sometime
Wednesday morning.
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