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You’ve got email (from Xabi)!
“We are sailing with the new S-SW winds, doing about 11 knots of boatspeed so looks promising. Hopefully we can stretch with AkzoNobel and put some ground between the rest of the boats and us but as I said, for the moment it just looks promising.”
“Our hopes are now in the ridge we will have before Ireland”
An email from Xabi.
“In the next 36 hours is a lot to come”
Email from skipper Xabi Fernández.
Tricky finishing, by Vila
“But most important a high pressure ridge before arriving Newport could well compress the fleet and shuffle current positions… tricky finishing.”
“We now have to play catch-up, and we are all taking on the challenge”
E-mail from Joan Vila on board MAPFRE
“Checking the AIS, binoculars, hand bearing compass… That is how we expend the watches…”
Leg 8’s first email from Xabi