Financial Crisis – Conditions worsen, chocolate sees them through.

We are beating our brains to mash into the south-easterlies, not too bad
so far, staysail and one reef in solid 20 knots, boat slamming, waves
crashing across the cockpit, it’s wet out there, cant find a strong enough
reason to be there, sleeping under a warm duvet seems just fine as the
autopilot battles the freaking elements, no traces of any shipping,
radar reflector and AIS totally silent. I think it is safe to say we
are in the middle of freaking no where. Even Paul who normally is in the
cockpit unless is taking a nap or eating is finding the comforts of the
port master cabin to be far more agreeable then the jet wash in the
garden. We leave that to heroes and fools.
I dont want to go too much into our top secret strategy here as it may
become rather too obvious that we dont have one, we are waiting for the
others to reveal their cards before committing to our route as currently
there are two radical school of thoughts in relation to the approaching
high.
Today a special thanks to our chocolate sponsor, a nice bar of chocolate
goes a long way in keeping you happy in this weather. Willie’s World Class
Cacao supplied us with amazing dark chocolate for our entire race, 70%+
cocoa and cuban raw cane sugar… The box we have this week is the
Peruvian 70, with tropical fruit notes, it’s truly amazing stuff… the
chocolate is so dark that it did not melt even in 35C during the hottest
of tropical days and now that it is colder it is really snappy and crunchy
when you bite into the corner of a bar… hmmmmmm…..

Posted by: First Class Sailing