Tuesday 4th december 2007
Temenos II escapes the calms
Whilst the frontrunners are currently negotiating their rounding of the Saint
Helena high, there must be fresh hope aboard Véolia Environnement, Hugo Boss and
Delta Dore for making up their deficit. For once, the latter are under the
influence of a cold front and have been benefiting from steadier downwind
conditions than the leaders since yesterday. Clearly their goal will be to make
hay whilst the sun shines.
For Temenos II, which has yet to encounter the same winds as its predecessors,
it is impossible to hope to make up the miles for the time being. Michèle and
Dominique aren’t managing to extract themselves from this zone of light winds
and once again windless squalls have accompanied them throughout the night.
The gentle pace coupled with the pleasure of being at sea makes you almost
forget the notion of time aboard Temenos II, to the extent that these past three
and a half weeks at sea, feel like just one to Michèle.
“It’s crazy, time just flies by without you even realising. Your life revolves
around the watch sequences; you see day and night go by but you don't count
them.
It’s only when you take out the boxes of food each week that you really grasp
what’s going on. You could tell me a week had gone by and I wouldn’t know any
different. The time on board is so dense that you can't get bored. Time just
zips by! If it carries on like that we'll get to Barcelona and say to ourselves
'already?' (laughs)"
The 1700 hour rankings were encouraging too, Temenos II’s speeds finally seeming
to have taken off again. We can but hope that they have found the exit from this
sluggish zone of calm.
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