TELEFÓNICA BLACK LEG ONE DAY 14 QFB
It has been a hard day’s night. Fighting upwind with a nice uncomfortable wave and some 25 knots of breeze at night is something you sailors know very well. So imagine in these boats conceived to fly downwind. But we still push hard, as we were so close to the Puma! In fact, when dawn came, we still could see her a few miles to leeward. We are in a bunch!
We passed the scoring gate of Noronha yesterday at 1448 UTC in the fourth position, but with the Puma to the sight, so close we are after 3500 miles! We had a Brazilian army ship following us for a couple of miles as we passed by Noronha, is was great fun to see more human beings apart from us! I think they took some great shots of us sailing the TELEFÓNICA NEGRO.
We manage pretty well under these conditions, apart from the fight which is to climb “the Everest” to go to the galley to prepare food, as every move inside the boat is a goal! We call “the Everest” the step which covers the rams which move the keel inside the boat, as we have to jump over every time we have to do something fore, and under certain conditions, with which even walking is hazardous, imagine ducking and jumping over anything!
As conditions are improving right now, we will take advantage of them and start bailing and taking care of the inside, you can imagine how it is!
More tomorrow
Mikel Pasabant – MCM