sca 09.45 uur
New morning updates:
With about 1270 miles to sail to Cape Horn, reaching on starboard gybe this morning in about 22kts of westerly wind, Team SCA is making solid progress, seeking to maximise rest and recovery right now as they prepare for some bigger winds building for the passage of the Cape.
They are just over 80 miles off the main cluster of leaders, all gybing down the exclusion zone like a coastal regatta.Sam Davies called in this morning: "We are heading SE this morning, looking out for penguins, it is all good right now we are sailing under the A3, we have not long gybed and the sea state on this gybe is a bit more messy.
It is not easy to steer on this gybe in the dark, it is difficult, it is quite different from gybe to gybe. A bit of cloud came over before it got dark." "It it cold, but not as cold in the westerly as it was when the wind was more S'ly a couple of days ago.
The sea temperature is 9 degrees, I don't know what the air temperature is, which is probably just as well." "We are doing OK, where we should be I suppose considering what we gave away with the wipeout and the aftermath, we caught up a bit yesterday but we are just trying to keep it simple right now." "While it has been a bit more peaceful we have been trying to rest, knowing what is coming and for the first time really I have been having to press some people to rest, Libby was pretty worn out and I suppose I had to get bossy.
There are a few people with strains and tired and you could see in the gybes it was not as slick and so looking at what's in store for the next couple of days then rest is important." "For the next 12 hours we are in building breeze up to 30kts downwind, there will be some moments when we will be missing our fractional zero but we will soon be on smaller sails, which will be interesting to see what these boats are like in bigger winds and small sails."
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