TELEFÓNICA BLACK LEG ONE DAY 16 QFB: received 26.10.08 1237 GMT
We have been preparing for war since early morning. Everything has been organised and fixed up for the coming hours in which we expect to have some more than 40 knots, according to the weather forecast. The good news is that we will at last catch up with winds which will take us closer to the finishing line, and be able to fight for the leading place. We are at a certain distance behind, with a drop of wind and big shifts, but still there.
More good news is that we have cleared up a lot of stuff in here, so there is more room available for anything.
Life on board goes as usual, except for some funny repairs our “Master of the Laminates: Laminator David (David Vera/ESP)”, has done. You may ask him by mail what happened. I cannot write about that here!! Ha ha!!
And in between laminating and laminating, sail changes and, one of the worst things on board: stacking. Imagine moving and piling up hundreds of kilos in this reduced space every time the wind drops or increases in one or two knots! No problem, ‘stacking again!’ is the shout and everyone goes to it.
Oh, I almost forgot! We have only two spoons left! So imagine next step. Making spoons out of plastic! Or laminated carbon!! Laminator again!
Let’s see what happens. More tomorrow.
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