Another day, just like when you get back home and they ask you “How was it?” and you go….Well, as always. But we don’t go back home, and nobody ask us.
In the middle of the Atlantic and racing in the most extreme race in the world, there’s no time for those questions. The present is the only thing that matters, the past is gone.
Today we haven’t been sailing particulary fast but in comparison with the rest of the fleet, we’ve done all right. A couple of clouds on our way and the same for the others boats. Some clouds were good and some weren’t, but we didn’t worry too much.
All the guys have been on deck and life onboard is pretty comfortable. It’s a bit warmer and that shows we are getting closer to the tropical latitudes, and the Equator is close: just 900 miles away.
The guys keep saying that King Neptune is always harder on newbies from South to North than the other way around, but there’s only one King Neptune and those are just jokes to scare those of us who haven’t crossed in this direction.
The sunset was beautiful, sky was clear, with just some scattered clouds. From 20:30 UTC we were expecting a 50º shift and a tack with it which would put us heading NW. But it’s 06:00 UTC now and nothing’s happened, although we found ourselves doing one tack after the other. We crossed with Dongfeng again at night, we could see their top light that shows they are really close, but the night was dark and you can’t really see in detail.
#vamosMAPFRE
Fran