Red sky at night The sunset as the teams left Cape Town was…
Red sky at night
The sunset as the teams left Cape Town was beautiful.
Yann Riou on Dongfeng got footage of someone (maybe Kevin Escoffier?) working the bow, with Mapfre ahead of them. Corinna Halloran on SCA videoed Annie Lush (I think?) grinding with Alvimedica to leeward.
I’m happy to have the on-board videos again. I wish all the teams were as good as Dongfeng and SCA about posting them quickly with minimal post-OBR editing.
As the sun set SCA was leading, though just barely. Then they and Mapfre tacked inshore a little early, sailed into lighter wind, and had to tack out again, causing them to fall behind the other five boats. Around 2315 UTC Vestas also got burned from being too far inshore and had to tack out.
At sunrise SCA was at the back of the fleet with Vestas a mile and half to starboard and Mapfre three miles ahead. Throughout the day today, SCA has seemed a bit off the pace, though it’s hard to tell why from the tracker. Lighter wind? Steering/trimming? Sail selection? Weed on the keel? As of the 1540 update, SCA and Vestas are trailing the fleet, about 12 miles behind current leader Alvimedica.
Winds were lighter than expected this morning (Stacey Jackson talks about that in the SCA video), but were back up to the mid-20s in the latest update. The boats have finished beating, and now are reaching southeast toward stronger wind. Tonight they’ll cross the Agulhas Current, which tends to build up nasty waves as it flows counter to the wind. Hopefully everything on the boats holds together.
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