Confused, delirious, and half asleep I stumbled out if bed to begin to
prepare to gybe my gear from one side of the boat to the other. Obviously, a
gybe was not planned. We have found themselves too far to the west. Our plan
was to head East North East and pick up a wind shift that would then allow us to
round up North, but as Sam explains, "we are not going to get the shift we were
looking for. We are going to suffer a bad loss on the next few position reports
but this a long race and there's still time."
"It's happened so we have to move on and deal with it but it's really hard,"
Justine explained. "Everyone else is reaching on one gybe and we need to gybe
multiple times in order to get to the same place. It's the considerably slower
route."
Basically, if you run in a straight line to one point, it's far more
efficient than running to the same point but zig zagged. We are zig zagging,
therefore covering more ground, in light winds, where as the rest of the fleet
is going straight in light winds.
Nonetheless, we are a team of performers and fighters. We excel in light
winds and have proven we know how to fight. We know of the dedication and heart
that must go in to the entirety of this race and there is no doubt in our minds
we will not stop continuing to perform over 100%.
Justine is right, we have to pick up our bootstraps and focus on performing
our best in order to make sure that we do not lose too many valuable miles in
our zig zag up the Indian Ocean. (www.teamsca.com)
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