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Pacific Cup 2008 - Le Flying Fish - Day 1 |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
First day at sea... things are settling down slowly. Trying to get into a rhythm. For us the race started when we left the dock as our engine didn't want to get in gear. We started sailing 'upwind', it was not looking good to make the start on time until we got a tow all the way out of the Alameda Esturary from a super nice guy.. We sailed the rest of the way to San Francisco making our start just by 10 minutes. What a relief...
It was some close racing with the other 2 Moore 24, then later in the afternoon we started taking different options... we probably won't see each other until the finish line. Last night we had 2 boats sail very close to us. Acacia with who we tried to do a radio check (more on this later). During the night Mirage came to say hello. Since there was very little wind it was easy to talk from one boat to the other.
This morning we missed the roll call. No luck with our SSB radio. Yesterday we tried to connect to Children's Hour (informal call) but couldn't. We checked all the connections and many other things but no luck. This morning we were unable to report our position. Luckily Elise had their satellite phone on and they relayed our position. Merci Elise! Because we cannot listen to 'roll call' we don't know the position of our competitors. Oh well, we'll find out in Hawaii.
Only slept 4 hours yesterday. Need to do some catch up... Besides dinner last night (beef stew - freeze dried) we have been skipping the other meals, just snacking on what some handy. We'll try to start the regular meals tonight.
We are currently sailing with our jib top (#2), moving along quite nicely around 6 knots. The wind picked up early afternoon and turned right, what we were waiting for. Little by little we've been organizing the boat to make our space more livable. The sun is trying to peak through the clouds but with very little success. Couple more days and hopefully we'll get some nice sunny days, remove some layers and think about the first shower.
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