Windholes and Mexico

Just received another quick update from Jelte onboard Jamaica:

Jamaica - Lime Coloured

Windhole

Looks like our tactics to go north of a windhole (which we predicted would stop everyone else) hasn't paid off so far. But we shall see in the next 24 hours if going inshore in Mexico pays off. It's a bit of a gamble, but then you got to try something.

It's boiling hot here now, and having spent the last 6 hours in almost no wind it's impossible to keep cool. There's also almost no shade as the sun beams down from high in the sky. 

Note from the Skipper Report

"The wind is getting lighter and the temperatures are getting hotter. The racing is still very close and each schedule we make some gains and we make some losses on the rest of the fleet.

Gains and losses are largely down to which tack boats are sailing on as there is most definitely a losing one and a making one but in order to make our way south east we all have to gybe our way downwind. Snippet from Skipper Report - Pete Stirling"

Fingers crossed the in-shore tactics will pay off!