<\/p>\n
We are sailing in a lovely sunshine, broad reaching towards the northern
\ntip of South island, New Zealand of course, some 500 miles to the North
\nEast of us. From there we’ll have a final stretch of just over 100 miles
\nof tricky sailing in the infamous Tasman Bay and Cook Strait, often
\nbattered by some of the strongest winds on the planet, it looks from the
\nforecast that Ross and Cambell on BSL may be in for a real pasting, with
\nforecast 40-60 knots headwinds, all depends on their timing to the entrance
\nof the strait.<\/p>\n
All well on board, as usual anticipation makes time expand, the thought of
\nof being on land, celebrating this amazing voyage, means clocks seem to
\nhave stopped, but in reality the miles are ticking by, first we broke the
\n1000 miles to go barrier, now we’re looking at the 500 miles mark, land is
\nto our starboard a few hundred miles away and yesterday for the first time
\nsince Cape Town, after 30 days, we saw a ship, genuinely this was the
\nfirst sign that the human race exists at all having shared day after day
\nwith albatrosses and pestrels, which kinda start looking sexy after a
\nwhile (just kidding).<\/p>\n
We wont make it in time for New Year’s celebrations which we’ll spend at
\nsea, we may paradoxically be close enough to land by then to see the
\nfireworks, lets hope we dont need to use our flares at that time as i
\nguess they would not be noticed!!!<\/p>\n
I am very grateful to Ventana Group, one of my sponsors, who helped us
\nsorting out the flights for my girlfriend Ella who i will be able to meet
\non arrival in Wellington. No wonder we sped up so much in the past few
\ndays taking more than 600 miles off the leaders, i really have something
\nto look forward to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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