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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s another pleasant sail today in the Southern Ocean, reaching west in
\nwarm Northerly winds. We are sailing with Phesheya Racing in sight just
\nbehind our stern now, we chatted on VHF a few times exchanging jokes and
\nbanter, which is really nice, sharing the adventure with your competitors
\ni think is part of this great race.<\/p>\n
On the VHF chat we all expressed our gratitude for the extremely nice
\nconditions that we are being blessed with and which should be with us
\nanother while still as it seems we’ll manage to keep with this weather
\nsystem for a few days… we really cannot complain. Both Hugo and I are
\ntrying to bank on as much sleep as possible, an investment for when things
\nwill get tougher and being alert could make the difference between
\nbreaking and breaking through…<\/p>\n
As thing are quieter on board i’d like to take the opportunity to thank The latest news from Marco down in the Southern Ocean – It’s another pleasant sail today in the Southern Ocean, reaching west in warm Northerly winds. We are sailing with Phesheya Racing in sight just behind our stern now, we chatted on VHF a few times exchanging jokes and banter, which is really nice, sharing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":2262,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPatrick Hemp who came to help us in Cape Town with the preparations of the
\nboat, he shares the passion for the sea and yachting and has great
\nexperience in design as well as project management and coordination, you
\nshould check out his website at www.hempmarine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"