What a race! We seem to hanging well with our fleet, some of our new sail inventory has been helping us just put the miles on in light air, absolutely fun to sail 9 knots of boat speed in 6 of wind!
We are currently all in the grove, shedding layers as its always impressive how fast things get hot once you hit the gulf stream. Water temp currently 79F (hot hot hot) which makes down bellow a bit of a cooker. Its been a hard and messy crossing with light and variable breeze eitehr giving us exactly what we need, or exactly the opposite.
It really is a silly sport, but what a fun ride this Cookson 50 is.
Keep on trucking, this may not be a record breaking year for the race, but at least we brought the right boat to take it on.
– 3L Crew