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IMOCA-Race: ECOVER BtoB 2007
www.transatecoverbtob.com - www.imoca.org - Übersicht
13.12.2007
ROXY 60' / Transat B to B
Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) - Port la Forêt (France)
Skipper: Sam DAVIES (UK)
Position: 8th, 783,10 miles behind the race leader
"Hello from Roxy! We're surfing along at speeds between 12 and 15 knots, with a blue sky, fluffy clouds and 18 knots of wind. The night was difficult for me, strategy-wise! All the routing software, and my feeling said that we should gybe north to invest in some North, as the wind is stronger and a better angle for the rest of the route. But it is really hard to gybe away from the direct route, knowing that I will loose miles in the "scoreboard". Hopefully these lost miles will be temporary and I will gain more distance later from being in a favourable postion.
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It is doubly hard, as I am being "hunted" by Yannik on Cervin, and the timing for the gybe was during the "blackout" hours of the night when we don't receive position reports, so I couldn't see where he was. But, equally, he could not see my moves either. I even asked Godfrey (my flying fish) but he really had no idea, although he liked the thought of trying port gybe for a while just because he had never done that before! So, here we are, to the North of the "old boats" fleet, and LESS THAN 1000 miles to go! That's great because now the "miles to go" are displayed on my cockpit instruments to spur me on towards the finish. At these speeds, those miles tick off satisfyingly quickly too. Now I am going to try to repair my torch. Having a boat that is so reliable and solid (touch wood) means that there is no repairing, rebuilding, inventing to do. I'm not complaining, but it's funny to have so little to do that I have to keep myself busy with silly little things like my torch!!!!"
Sam Davies
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