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Passports... oh yes it expired! Medication... oh yes! don't even go there.... an off-shore First Aid kit is a small Pharmacy... looks interesting on paper BUT it's an other story when you try to sort it all in different categories and then you don't even want to think why they would have to use morphine or adrenaline etc Food... oh yes it is going to be a quick race! Yeah right! and if the sea is rough the boys won't eat much BUT if it is calm they eat like horses - ... Read More
We heard briefly from Limit this evening. Even worse than the previous Lion NZ Sound Bite. The gist is: Very comfortable sailing....... Spinnaker up...... having a great time...... Looking forward to doing it again...... something abut a rum and coke..... If we hear anything more we'll let you know but conditions are obviously still poor for Sat phones ... Read More
Lion New Zealand (Tuesday evening 30th June) Lat - 28.766 Long 171.33 This is a rough approximation of the sound bite collected by LuvMyBoat earlier this evening. "Hi, Alistair Moore from the Sailing Vessel Lion New Zealand - Sail Number 3900 We've been racing now for Four days......... Breeze is 30 knots on the nose....... We've had a few leaks and there's been a bit of water lying in the boat which meant there's been a fair bit of pumpin... Read More
Maybe Next Year ...... Disappointed but still keen certainly wraps up the feel of the boats and crew sitting dockside in Opua in New Zealand's Bay of Islands. Three boats that had set out on the Auckland to noumea Yacht Race are now settled comfortably (minus a few bits of vital equipment), getting a well deserved rest. The general consensus is that the waves weren't that big, but that the sea was a mess and it was hard to maintain steady progress when you couldn't see which way t... Read More
Storming along! In an earlier blog I referred to the fog as an ominous symbol of the calm before the storm, an omen tha appears to have come true.With seas of 8 metres reported, winds in excess of 40 knots and a spectacular electrical storm it's no wonder there have been breakdowns in the radio schedules and sat phone calls we were expecting. ... Read More
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