Home  Blog Sailing Pacific Cup 2008 - Le Flying Fish - Day 5
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Pacific Cup 2008 - Le Flying Fish - Day 5 |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
As I write this email we're about to go below 1,300nm to the finish. Always good for the morale to reach those milestones. Over the last couple days we've been working our way south to try to avoid the high pressure (meaning lighter winds) coming down on us. Today the wind direction is not as cooperative so we cannot go down as much as we would like to. We'll see over the next day or so if our southerly option will have paid off to try to remain in stronger winds/waves.
We can now feel the sun behind the clouds, finally... At least the day is short and t-shirt and the nights are mild. The boat and our foulies are dry. It makes life so much more enjoyable.
As part of the trip I brought 72 paper boats. The project started with a simple piece of paper at St Isidore School in Danville,CA. The 2nd graders wrote some 'get well' notes and then folded them as paper boats. Those paper boats are now sailing across the Pacific Ocean. You can see where they are if you go to the Pacific Cup website (pacificcup.org) and look for Le Flying Fish in the satellite tracking section. Once in Hawaii, JP and I will personally deliver those "paper boats/get well notes" to the kids of Children's Hospital of Honolulu. We cannot wait to see those kids' faces when they realize what journey their paper boat has gone through. They might not even want to unfold the boat to read the get well note...
Stephane
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