Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Well, what a difference a day makes! Visit Malta Puma are now back in the race after a pit-stop n Great Yarmouth during the night A phone call at 7pm yesterday alerted us that there was a problem onboard and the team had made a decision to turn back to sheltered waters to try and repair the faulty alternator. Against the odds, they managed to strip down the alternator, clean it, rebuild it, re-attach it to the engine and it worked!! Amazing….
At 4.45am this morning they left Great Yarmouth and got back to the job of racing round the British Isles. This is no mean feat as it has left them at the back of the fleet with everything to do. They are now fighting to get into contention again, and remember this is only the beginning of day 3!!
Meanwhile, Playing Around Logic has lost a little ground overnight but it still heading exactly on the race rhumb-line to the next mark. They are currently adjacent to Sunderland/Newcastle area and will be in Scottish waters very shortly. All is well onboard although there has been a few bouts of seasickness amongst the team due to the stiff breeze and short, choppy seas over Dogger Bank. They found a stowaway yesterday, an electric kettle, not the most useful piece of equipment on a yacht with no domestic power! Yesterdays weather was very challenging for all the yachts with consistent 35 knots of breeze with squalls recorded at 50 knots – not particularly pleasant for anyone.
News from the fleet is that Tonnerre de Breskens 3 has taken over the overall lead from TP 52 John Merricks, and the leading yachts (the 2 Volvo 70’s) are just 100 miles from Muckle Flugga, the Northern most part of the course.
If you have any messages of support for our 2 teams, please send them through to allie@sailinglogic.co.uk and we will pass them on directly to the yachts….
