Communication Systems

Yesterday was an important US holiday, Thanksgiving Day, for families and friends. We seem a long way from home, now 19 days at sea, yet almost at the start of this around-the-world adventure and race. So many more miles before we see family and friends in person. Yet...

Making Up Miles

In the last two days we’ve made up some ground on the group of boats that have been in front of us for the last week or so. Jean-Yves Bernot, guru of the great French weather routers, when I studied with him last summer, said ‘try to put yourself in a...

The Finicky Genoa

Last night we came up against the precise finickiness of the genoa, our biggest upwind jib. It is masthead height, tacks to the bow, and trims through the ring along with the solent and staysail. Our polars say that upwind it is good to about 13 knots true wind speed....

Has this Vendee Globe has been physically easier for you than the first one so far and do you take more pleasure in this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxqEVo9xbp4Video can’t be loaded: Q&A with Silvia’s 3rd Grade Class – Cairo, Egypt...