{"id":231,"date":"2012-02-23T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-02-23T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T09:41:14","slug":"a-game-of-chess-with-cessna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/a-game-of-chess-with-cessna\/","title":{"rendered":"A game of chess with Cessna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a few miles we’ll touch the latitude of 60 degrees south, it sounds
\nquite frightening but my cure is to remember that when I sailed the
\nShetland Round Britain and Ireland in 2010 we were in higher latitudes in
\nthe northern hemisphere, I guess what makes here so overwhelming is the
\nsense of isolation but if you say to yourself i’m sailing around the
\nShetlands it does not sound quite as horrible! We are 1000 miles from Cape
\nHorn and as soon as the wind will turn it should soon become a fast ride
\nto our next stop.<\/p>\n

The battle with Cessna continues on the high seas, yesterday our opponents
\ndecided to break the cover and tacked north-east for about 8 hours. We
\nwelcomed their move as we know that as long as we are in the same winds we
\ncannot beat a latest generation boat. It’s like a very slow game of chess
\nwhere each move takes days to show it’s merits or prove to be an error.
\nFor those who don’t know, Conrad Colman’s boat is an Akilaria RC2, we sail
\nthe previous version, the Akilaria RC1 from the same designer (Marc
\nLombard) and the same yard (MC-Tec). Both would have a lot of explaining
\nto do to their customers if the newer design wasn’t faster. We have had a
\nbit of luck with the weather helping us catch them when they got away
\nafter the first 10 days of racing, now, upwind we can still play cat and
\nmouse but soon when the wind will shift and we’ll be reaching we will
\nstruggle to keep the same speeds. For now, we’re doing our best to get in
\nthe lead and we can always take it from there.<\/p>\n

We have to report a broken sheave on the boom end sheave box, this caused
\none of the reefing pennants to damage the carbon sheave separators, not a
\nbig deal but will make reefing a slightly lengthier manoeuvre. We also
\nmysteriously broke one of the mainsail cars, not an issue in light winds
\nbut we have to hope this will not prove to be a problem in the heavy
\ndownwind conditions we expect later at the horn…<\/p>\n

Day by day the job list inevitably builds up with a little new issue that
\nwill need to be addressed in Punta before the restart of the next leg, the
\nmain one being the torn A2 Spinnaker, but also some other maintenance jobs
\non the staysail and mainsail such as the broken car probably result of the
\nweek long dreadful upwind work earlier in the leg… So once again I wish
\nto thank those who are helping me to continue racing with your paypal
\ndonations at www.marconannini.com\/help<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Lap of luxury........<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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