“Our skipper says the crew is strong and ready. Are you?”

“Dear Southern Ocean: You have kept us on our toes over the last 24 hours giving us an intense and exciting evening last night full of squalls up to 40kts”

Tonight, is going to be hard again, proper wind downwind so I hope we can pass it with no problems. Uncountable gibes on the ice limit exclusion zone will kill the crews in all boats.

“Dear Southern Ocean… You made one of my mate’s life jackets deploy while he was bailing water, I don’t think he was too happy about that…”

“Dear Southern Ocean, thank you for your welcome gift; it is truly a magical site […]”