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On and on we go
We are sitting in a secondary low pressure system for a couple of days now, which has developed between two high pressure systems. It is that low which is responsible for the winds which are blowing from roughly the direction we want to go: east. Thus our progress is slow. We are beating against the
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Pacific Spa
The last few days have been intense. Regarding the race we have been doing great. The distance to the boats ahead has been reduced, while we could increase our lead over the boat behind us. Overall we are very pleased with our performance. This has been possible due to strong northerly winds. This allowed us
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Happy Easter again
After we broke our rudder we were underway with wind coming from the wrong side for some time. With the good rudder on the windward side we had to make sure the boat stayed more or less level as to not lift the rudder out of the water. Correspondingly the sail plan has to be
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It was the first day with low pressure conditions which the North Pacific is famous for. We were on a beam reach and made good speed towards Seattle. And that despite the wind blowing at force eight and regularly gusting to force nine. The sea state was correspondingly high and came in from the same
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Calm Pacific
In the past few days the wind has been rather variable. Sometimes we had barely any wind and then it was a little more but coming from the wrong direction. As a result our progress was pretty slow. On the other handwe were able to utilise those times of low wind for some cleaning and
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Pacific, here we go
After a short but very intense stopover in Tongyeong we are underway to cross the Pacific. Or at least on our way into the Pacific. The start followed the meanwhile well known order. However, we were treated to a festive farewell ceremony on the main stage in the race village. Following that we slipped lines
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Groundhog Day
The race from Qingdao, China to Tongyeong, South Korea is the shortest race of our circumnavigation. This stage was supposed to take between four and five days, covering almost 500 nautical miles on the way. For us this would anyhow be a very special race as we are representing the Korean coastal city on our
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First podium finish?!?
After the start the next intermediate goal was the Ocean Sprint. Once again there were bonus points waiting for those boats, which would pass between two virtual lines the fastest. In our case it was the latitudes 23 degrees north and 26 degrees north. However, this time the race course was not passing between those
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Bye Bye Philippines
After a rather tiring approach to the Philippines we managed to get a few days of recovery. After the mandatory deep clean of the entire boat and the usual maintenance work we only had to carry out a few repairs, as we do in every stopover. The biggest by far was the repair of our
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The Wait for the Wind
The last few days were relatively low on wind. There is the occasional squall passing by, bringing us some more wind. But all in all the wind was low to very low and the progress was respectively slow. The boats ahead seem to have stronger winds and thus the distance to the next boat ahead
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