Telefónica Blue Leg Two Day 6 QFB: received 20.11.08 1552 GMT
We are very happy bunch, passed both Puma and our teammates. I think Puma simply just forgot about the scoring gate, why would you otherwise give these points away?
But we sailed well, we took over 30 miles out of our sistership in the last 24 hours, who we know have the same sails, and we are not far behind the leaders.
We are still not the quickest in the heavy running conditions, but we could this time control the damage and we are only 60 miles behind first place instead of 600 like in the first leg, after a similar amount of days in the same conditions.
As well, Jordi (Jordi Calafat/ESP) and Daryl (Daryl Wislang/NZL) have finished repairing the last broken sail, so now two extra guys for sailing the boat again, which helps as well.
Just under 3000 miles to go to Cochin, and we know we are not going to see any more heavy running conditions………….hurrraaaa, our stronger points of sailing are coming now.
Cheers,
Bouwe Bekking – skipper