Thursday, 16 August 2007
Flying Down Wind
Exabyte and Jaguar are flying downwind and making great progress toward the finish. Exabyte looks set to be the first Sailing Logic boat to finish and are expected to arrive between 1800 and 2030 this evening. Jaguar are just 18 miles behind and their ETA is between 2100 and 2300 tonight.
Jaguar is chasing the current Class 1 leaders hard and are just 10 miles behind them. They have had no power for the past 24 hours so have no instruments, GPS or engine to charge the batteries. They are sailing completely blind making their achievement even more remarkable.
Bol, first mate on Jaguar has just sent us a text saying ‘it has been a pretty tough race so far with a bit of everything thrown in! And we’ve had our fair share of disasters, breaking the binoculars was definitely on par with sailing blindly across the Irish Sea with no instruments, lights, compass or windex. With only our class flag flapping on our cheek to let us know we are sailing too low in 30 plus knots of wind!’
Sailing Logics shore team and supporters now eagerly await the arrival of Exabyte early this evening. Puma Logic is on standby and will be going out to escort Jaguar into Plymouth tonight. Spirits are running high here in Plymouth at the moment and we cannot wait to hear all the stories form the boats as they arrive in.
Bongani and Sidney are still toughing it out with Bongani due to arrive early tomorrow morning and Sidney at lunch time tomorrow.
Chieften, the Farr designed Cookson 50, has been confirmed as the overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race 2007. Jaguar and Exabyte will both hopefully finish in the top twenty.
Exabyte and Jaguar are flying downwind and making great progress toward the finish. Exabyte looks set to be the first Sailing Logic boat to finish and are expected to arrive between 1800 and 2030 this evening. Jaguar are just 18 miles behind and their ETA is between 2100 and 2300 tonight.
Jaguar is chasing the current Class 1 leaders hard and are just 10 miles behind them. They have had no power for the past 24 hours so have no instruments, GPS or engine to charge the batteries. They are sailing completely blind making their achievement even more remarkable.
Bol, first mate on Jaguar has just sent us a text saying ‘it has been a pretty tough race so far with a bit of everything thrown in! And we’ve had our fair share of disasters, breaking the binoculars was definitely on par with sailing blindly across the Irish Sea with no instruments, lights, compass or windex. With only our class flag flapping on our cheek to let us know we are sailing too low in 30 plus knots of wind!’
Sailing Logics shore team and supporters now eagerly await the arrival of Exabyte early this evening. Puma Logic is on standby and will be going out to escort Jaguar into Plymouth tonight. Spirits are running high here in Plymouth at the moment and we cannot wait to hear all the stories form the boats as they arrive in.
Bongani and Sidney are still toughing it out with Bongani due to arrive early tomorrow morning and Sidney at lunch time tomorrow.
Chieften, the Farr designed Cookson 50, has been confirmed as the overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race 2007. Jaguar and Exabyte will both hopefully finish in the top twenty.
Pictured here is Tom Frame back in the beer tent mixing his morphine with a well earned beer!
posted by Sailing Logic at 2:48 PM
