by Rich Wilson | Dec 21, 2016 | Ship's Logs
We had a fantastic encounter today when my friend Eric Bellion came roaring up from behind us and passed us close aboard. I had seen him coming on the position reports over the last few days. He has a ‘secret weapon’ in a special sail that Michel...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 21, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk7
Dear Ethan, If there is very light wind, we have sails that will work in those conditions, and so we just keep going. If there is actually no wind at all, then the sails can’t do anything with that, so the boat stops, the autopilot alarm goes off because it...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 21, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk7
Dear Sanya, I think that you would need to have a dream to see beyond the horizon, to find out what’s ‘over there’. This can be both the actual ‘what’s over there’, ports, peoples, cultures, countries, but also ‘what’s...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 20, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Yesterday’s rush with the big fractional gennaker was amazing. We hit 27.5 knots of boat speed on 29 knots of wind. For me, I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Those speeds may be natural for Armel Le Cléac’h or Alex Thomson at the front...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 19, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk7
Dear Ileana, No I don’t, and I don’t think any of the other skippers do. Mostly it is because the boat is going too fast to fish, and also because even if you caught a fish, then you have to filet it and cook it, and it is too time consuming to do that for...
