Message From nicole

Sorry for the lack of blogs recently but things have been a little crazy recently. After a few days of surfing down the waves at 20 knots (my own top speed is 21.4 which is actually a bit scary) things have gone a bit mad with things breaking all over the place. Our spinnaker pole has 3 lines on it to hold it in place. Yesterday one line came off which we managed to fix by someone shimmying up another line to reattach it. Then about 20 mins later one of the other lines snapped, which sent the spinnaker flying all over the place and it wrapped around the inner forestay so badly that it took more than an hour to untwist. It also lost us two places in the race, which is pretty soul destroying as we have been all working really hard and are all suffering from sleep deprivation. Anyway, still 2500 miles to go, so plenty of time to catch those boats that snuck past.... xx