anonsally replied to your photoset:Team SCA bow women Stacey Jackson, Liz Wardley,…You’re…
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You’re making me nervous about this leg. But it sounds as if I *should* be nervous about it.
I’m probably guilty of over-hyping some aspects of it. They’ve already faced lots of bad weather and crossed oceans and were in the Southern Ocean (briefly) at the end of leg 1 and the start of leg 2. So this leg isn’t different in that sense.
These are all very experienced, very talented sailors, and even on SCA, where there are only a few who have done this specific race before, there are people (like Sam and Dee) who have sailed the Southern Ocean and rounded Cape Horn multiple times.
And they have strongly made, well-equipped boats that were specifically designed to hold up in these conditions, such that (hopefully) they’ll be better able to finish the leg without having to retire for repairs, as happened to all but one of the competitors on leg 5 in the 2011/12 race.
But yeah. It’s a wild, scary, beautiful place. There’s a reason why Antarctica was one of the last places on earth to be explored: because all the other places were easier to get to.
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