13 - 28 knots. How are you supposed to sail properly in conditions like this? When it drops it pickes up again immediately, it is exhausting.
Manu's keel problem shook me a bit. We are never safe from damage, and the finish is still a long way off. It's quite scary.
On the positive side, there is less Sargassum, so the hydro works better. It looks very complicated after the trade winds. Since the routes diverge quite a bit, I will read the tea leaves in the bottom of my cup.
Miranda / French Campaign
News07 February 2021
Pip Hare......'aaarrrrggghhhh'
aaarrrrggghhhh
That is how I am feeling right now, at 4 in the morning. In the pitch dark. These next four days are shaping up to be shockers.
The press conference of Romain Attanasio, highlights
Relaxed, happy, contented and relieved of stress, Romain Attanasio was forthcoming and informative, talking of his desire to have a foiling boat for his third Vendee Globe
'A third round? I want to fly....' Romain Attanasio
Romain Attanasio's first words after crossing the finish line....
"This is a bit crazy. You are so 100% connected all the time, there are things happening all the time. If you are not on it all the time and something happens it becomes a disaster. It doesn't happen. You can never stop. And then this climb up the Atlantic. I had a bit of everything. The calms at the Falklands, the storm afterwards, then 3 days stuck in the doldrums, and again that last storm at the Azores.
Around 1600hrs UTC this afternoon while Manuel Cousin was racing upwind in the strong NE'ly trade winds 750 miles west of the Cape Verde islands her reported that Groupe Sétin's a keel cylinder ram has broken. The skipper Cousin is in contact with his shore crew to try to secure the boat in order to put in place the emergency pins to block the keel. He is in 22nd place 88 miles to the NE of Clement Giraud.
