Ericsson 4 Leg Two Day 5 QFB: received 19.11.08 1704
All is going smoothly aboard Ericsson 4 this evening and with the breeze starting to moderate it has been a good chance to start to dry out and tidy up ship.
The past few days have been fairly hectic as every couple of hours or so a rain squall has passed over us and raised the wind speed from 25kts into the 40s or so. This increase in breeze means reducing sail suitably, which requires all hands on deck irrelevant of whether you are meant to be on watch or not. As such, sleep has been somewhat disturbed of late!
We are now only a couple hundred miles from reaching the longitude scoring line and at this stage are leading the fleet with our stablemates on Ericsson 3 just 15 miles or so astern. Fingers crossed that things will stay that way for a one two result for Ericsson Racing Team on the points tally.
Everyone is rather cold and wet, and looking forward to Jules (Salter/GBR – navigator) and Torben (Grael/BRA – skipper) giving us the call to gybe onto port and head north for Cochin.
Take care,
Ryan Godfrey – bowman