| At sea. Volvo Ocean Race: Brasil 1 spots spinnaker problems on Black Pearl |
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| Wednesday, 12 April 2006 | |
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Horacio Carabelli: As usual has been a hard day, looking for every edge in speed. Yesterday, we thought to have given a hard time to the Black Pearl and took about 7-8miles in about 8 hours. We just smoked away and left them on the horizon, but they are really dead mans chest; Cayard and his bunch of souls just appeared in the morning from nothing and started a fear approximation through our windward side. It has been more than 48 hours of battle trying to hang on third place. We tried every possible action to speed our ship, hand compass and binoculars in hand and a good eye on the radar were our tools to check his progress and action. It was the Black Pearl’s day until we noticed some action on the Pirate’s boat, a good look through the binoculars and we noticed that their spi was gone, they must have had some problem as they were bare headed for about 7 minutes , they managed to set a new headsail and changed some degrees north to vanish on the horizon to windward . It was a great day and one more battle to talk about. Mother nature gave something to look at today when we saw with a big stingray and a about a 2 meter shark slowly looking for some pray near the water surface. The weather is just fantastic, it’s near midnight and just came off deck in bare feet, shorts and t-shirt!!! What great sailing. From Brasil 1 sailing near Caribbean at 20 knots !!! |
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