Mid Ocean rendez-vous

After six days of racing i have a sense of deja vu, the three new boats
are at the front and here futher back we are nearly in visual contact with
Phesheya Racing which is about 7 miles to our port, we had a brief radio
chat and as we are converging we should actually see them pretty soon…
the same had happened by the Gibriltar and again by the coast of Morocco
in leg one. The two boats are same design and same speed and it makes it
real special in the solitude of the Southern Ocean to have your fellow
racers and friends close by…

It’s another very pleasant sunny day and we should enjoy stable and
relatively light conditions for a few days ahead. The leaders should have
systematically less wind than us so hopefully the fleet will compress
again and regroup, although we dont really expect to quite catch them up.

The food on board has been particularly good for two reasons, the first is
that my girlfriend Ella did an amazing job of preparing daily bags for
Hugo and I, we only gave general ideas and it’s so nice for us to open a
new bag every day and find our main meals as well as snacks and little
surprises and treats in ziplock bags. The second is that RTW Food has
sponsored us with a range of freeze dried meals from their MX3 adventure
range and i must say these meals are excellent, i particularly recommend
the Chicken Paella with a few sneaky drops of Tabasco!

The ice limit that imposes that for the time being we cannot go further
south than 42S means sailing in nicer and hotter weather and i’m sure that
no one is complaining about this restriction… after 49E we’ll be able to
go further South and I dont think anyone is specifically looking forward
to getting cold!

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