Telefónica Black Leg Two Day 5 QFB: received 19.11.08 1033 GMT
Yesterday, when dawn came, we saw a navigation green light to our port side, and we realised that it could not be no other than our friends from TELEFÓNICA BLUE. And there they were. We were sailing a very interesting internal match-race to the gate, and in the next position report it came out that we had gained 14 miles to the waypoint ahead of them!
It was a very nice time, sailing beam-to-beam no more than two miles away from one another. And, as dawn came, they had sailed a bit northward of us, probably because they are with a different sail, and with different strategy. We still want to go a bit east-southeast, and we will see what happens when heading north with the expected gybe ahead.
Apart from that, everybody onboard begins to feel a bit tired, as there has been four days now of intense sailing in rough conditions, but happy anyway for the position. We enjoy every wave, but as Javi Plaza says, ‘it is time for a bit of sun bathing and relaxing, isn’t it?’
And, hopefully, we will have our Maciel ‘Cicho’ Cicchetti trimming on deck in a couple of days, eager as he is to recover completely. We have to tie him up to make him rest! Ha ha!
Now it is lunchtime, so let’s go for the ‘Serrano’ ham.
All the best.
Mikel Pasabant – MCM