UPDATE: “I don’t see any way around it.” Thursday is the beginning of the first bog transition in the race since Monday when the fleet began its march through the low pressure system. There were leads exchanged between three of the four boats and added tactical stress to the physical stress of sailing the boats. After a mellow day reaching 18-20 knots and a small ocean swell, Pepe and Ryan are preparing for the high pressure ridge only hours away where Pepe predicts a “re-start” of the fleet. A common term in racing, in this case, it will be when Safran runs into a light wind wall, stops, HUGO BOSS runs right up to it, and the next two the same. “I don’t see any way around it,” said Pepe as he looked at his weather charts. “The best we could do is push as hard as possible and set the right sails for the next six hours.” Pepe predicts a few more of these re-starts before Gibraltar and he is concerned about the possibility that the older, skinnier, Farr-designed, Neutrogena and GAES could slip past the wider more powerful leaders.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:00:11 +0000
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