I'd love to be emailing you more but I don't always have time to do it. Yesterday it was pretty much all hands on deck for most of the day--we had a foreguy failure in the middle of the night, and a spinnaker halyard broke in the morning that sent the spinnaker into the water in front of us. Not fast. That last adventure was cause to send Andy up the mast with the main down. Also not fast. In the end we sorted everything out, and we had a smoking hot night last night. We flew the spinnaker through night with no carnage to speak of. Very nice sailing today and people catching up on sleep.
We're doing OK in the race. Today's position report is wrong--we still actually in 4th and we are trying to catch Green Buffalo. We have 4 days to make up ~30 mi. Do-able but a challenge.
Bob & Andy, Thanks for the daily reports. I have been enjoying them greatly. I have been checking in twice daily, once in the morning, and once at night to see how your race is progressing. The realtime positioning system is an excellent thing for us armchair adventurers. It lets us experience the exitement and guess at yours and other's possible strategies for the race. Very cool. I have also been enjoying your daily reports just as much. Keep the chute up and roll on dudes!
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