Middle Sea Race

Global Yacht Racing's EH01
Global Yacht Racing - sponsors: Caspian Services
Mon 20 Oct 2008 06:36
Well here we are on day 3 of the race. After a sound start night one saw us fall back slowly through the fleet managing to find several large wind holes. Day two started off reasonably promising only to find that we were losing ground at a rapid rate. After some investigation we found the cause. A quick drop of our spinnaker and a dive over the side revealed that our folding propellor was in fact not folding! This was solved and we have been going like a train ever since.

We managed to pick the right side of the tricky Messina Straits and carried good wind and some current most of the way through. The light conditions have suited us well and as we approached the spectacular volcano of Stromboliwe were greeted not only with fantastic views of lava flows erupting but off in excess of 20 boats just ahead.

As of an hour ago we crossed the stern of P42 (our other Global Yacht Racing competitor) and we are clearly back up in the pack and chasing for the lead.

Time for some sleep as this light wind helming and trimming requires a lot of concentration. The crew work with kite hoists, jibes and drops in these light airs has been amazing and will I am sure stand us in good stead as we continue around this stunning course.

Until next time...

Richard and Crew of EH01 / Gyrateclaie

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