Telefonica Blue Leg Nine DAY 6 QFB: received 19.06.09 1248 GMT
Friday, June 19th, 2009Finally, we have finished, but not easy. Five miles out, absolutely no breeze for a couple of minutes.
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Telefonica Blue Leg Nine Day 6 QFB; received 19.06.09 0838 GMT
Friday, June 19th, 2009We have been teasing Daryl Wislang over the last 24 hours. Why, because he is the only one of the crew sailing the boat back to Spain after the race is finished.
Telefónica Blue Leg Nine Day 5 QFB: received 18.06.09 0947 GMT
Thursday, June 18th, 2009What should have been the leg for which I had high hopes and with some very close racing, has turned into a ‘cruise’.
Telefonica Blue Leg Nine Day 4 QFB: received 17.06.09 2002 GMT
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009After just two and half days after we the hit the rock, we are finally back on the water. The repair has been completed in an extraordinarily short time and the shore crew did a fantastic job.
Telefonica Blue Leg Nine Day 3 QFB; received 16.06.09 1525 GMT
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Amazingly enough, from a convulsed mass of lead, now the bulb is back in its original shape, at least as close as it can be… I have no enough words to describe how thankful to the shore team we are, they’re doing an incredible job fixing everything up. We’re helping them as much as we can. This morning at 4am a group of people, Daryl Wislang, Pepe Ribes, Iker Martinez, Xabi Fernandez and Patan (Pablo Arrarte), went down to the boat and sanded the bulb.
Green Dragon Leg Nine Day 1 QFB: received 14.06.09 2132 GMT
Monday, June 15th, 2009We have now rounded Skanor, pretty much the southern tip of Sweden and again set our masthead running spinnaker. Delta Lloyd has done the same and closed slightly on us behind.
Telefonica Black Leg Nine Day 2 QFB: received 15.06.09 2005 GMT
Monday, June 15th, 2009This really cold evening, reaching on port, we on Telefónica Black have just seen Almagrundet lighthouse blinking straight ahead, the first rounding mark before the finish. The water is very cold for the season, only 9 degrees Celsius and I apologize to my shipmates for not being able to offer a warmer welcome to the Swedish east coast.
Ericsson 3 Leg Nine Day 2 QFB: received 15.06.09 1831 GMT
Monday, June 15th, 2009We have been side by side with Puma for the last hours. At one point only 50-100 metres apart. It is very tricky to overtake a boat when reaching, they can pretty easy close the gate on you.
Telefonica Blue Leg Nine Day 2 QFB: received 15.06.09 1708 GMT
Monday, June 15th, 2009This morning the boat has been hauled out of the water and work has started. All the guys, shore crew and sailors have been divided into each area of the boat, depending on everyone’s skills.
Ericsson 4 Leg Nine Day 2 QFB: received 15.06.09 1630 GMT
Monday, June 15th, 2009Not long after my last update, things went downhill.
