The title of this blog should give you an idea of how busy we’ve been the last 24 hours. We’ve been gybing over 200 miles, one gybe every 20 minutes last night, making it impossible to sleep. We really love what we do, it is something that can not be explained in words, either you do, or you don’t.
Gybe after gybe we crossed our competitors as close as 50 metres. These crossings make for super exciting racing and today the fleet is as close as predicted. Following the tracker must be a crazy thing now, but let me tell you actually living it is as exciting as it can get.
In the afternoon we finally reached the northern most point of the ice limit and we changed bearing to the south east with the help of a shift that’s lasted the whole day.
The light’s moving fast and so are we towards the east. This is the third time today that I have to change the meal times and the more we sail to the east the more the sun light changes. Nights get shorter and days longer.
Talking about other things, going to the toilet is kind of tricky in the Southern Ocean.
Number 1, no problem, it’s easy. Number 2 if there’s no water on deck and the temperature so allows we do it at the aft, but when conditions worsen we do it inside right behind the galley, and you don’t want to know the smell of it.
MAPFRE is ready for the upcoming days and conditions. “Get ready for a really tough end of the race, the wind will pick up non stop. After Cape Horn we’ll have 40 knots heading upwind, and then 35 to 40 reaching,” says Iker.
#vamosMAPFRE
Fran