20.04.2009
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LEG 6 DAY 9
Approaching a 500 mile day on the fine yacht, gains on all the last
position reports- boat is going well and the crew is happy. What's there
not to like! Well, I will tell you one thing. The race is essentially
starting over again and the two bloody Ericsson boats are right next to
us- essentially tied with us in distance to the finish. We can't ever
shake these boats. Magnus Olson said at the pre-leg press conference that
he was going to shadow us because he thought we knew how to get to Boston
fastest. Well I'm not so sure if that is true because the T-Blue guys
seem to be doing a pretty good job thus far- but I didn't think he meant
his comment so literally.
We’re kind of tired of looking at a mirror image of Ericsson boats- feels
like we are getting teamed up on sometimes. Between you and me, we gauge
if they are close or not by the fact we can see the orange head on their
indexsails. We call it their pregnancy test. You know, you wait for the
stick or whatever it is to turn the special color…something like
that…well, their color turned orange. Orange pregnancy lines means they
are positively close. No visual on the orange indexsail head means
negative, they aren't that close. There have been a lot of positive tests
for far this race.
The fire hose is still on full force on deck. I can say that this is some
of the easiest 500 mile per day sailing that I have ever done. Warm, not
sweltering, warm water, beautiful 20 knot trade winds, open ocean planning
across the waves. Just fast, fun sailing that might bee some of the more
pleasurable miles ticked off this entire race. It has been a long time
coming waiting for days like this. Hopefully it lasts for a bit longer.
- Kenny
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