Things are definitely looking up for SCA (and Brunel). The…
Things are definitely looking up for SCA (and Brunel). The official race tracker shows them in last and next-to-last place, respectively, but a consensus is emerging, both from experts on shore and from the boats themselves, that the two boats have effectively taken the lead.
Campbell Field’s latest routing run shows Brunel finishing first, SCA finishing a little under 3 hours later, and the rest of the fleet 15 hours after that. Anything could happen, of course, but that must be a great feeling for those two boats.
The latest photo posted from SCA, which I’m guessing was taken just before sunset Thursday local time, shows (I think) Sam on the wheel, Dee trimming the mainsheet, and Eloide closest to the camera, all of them smiling.
Meanwhile aboard Dongfeng, currently last in the southern group (though just barely; all four are within five miles of each other), Martin (on the helm) and Eric look less happy. OBR Sam posted this to the team’s blog today:
The morning got off to a grim start, albeit Israel was only telling me the facts as he looked over the positions at the chart desk.
“The teams that went North will smash us, we should have done that.”
At that point we were in last place, or at least near the end of the pack. I never really know for certain. But smash is such a strong word.
“It was a mistake,” admitted Charles. “We wanted to go north but no one else was so we stayed with the group.”
I didn’t say anything, only gave him the look, which has become code for give me something better than that.
“It was a lack of courage,” he admitted.
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