After more days going up wind than anyone in the Volvo fleet cares to remember, the fleet has finally cracked off and is experience ‘proper’ Southern Ocean conditions as the five boats race onwards towards Cape Horn and the second of two scoring gates on this leg of the course.
‘What a relief. Finally the breeze has swung enough to le us ease sheets and get the good ship going fast in the right direction,’ noted Ericsson 4’s bowman, Ryan Godfrey. ‘It has been days now that our distance to the finish has not budged, so what a pleasure the past 24-hours were, to be doing 20 knots and heading east,’ he said. … Details