Steaming to first place

Friday 2 May 11:40

Too hot to think

It's 38 degrees in the nav station as I type this, which is causing everyone's brain to fry... It's making it hard to focus, which is exactly what we have to do; and what we have been doing, in order to charge to the front of the pack.

If you check the mileage we have made over the last 12 to 24 hours, you can see that focus paying off. Whilst other boats have ground to a complete standstill in various light wind conditions, we've been milking every last ounce of speed out of the good ship Jamaica. In some cases that saw us gain 50 miles on some boats within 6 hours!

Racing Ahead

But we have to continue this focus and drive if we want to grab that top podium step in Panama... Great Britain are just a few miles ahead of us (we can see them tantalisingly close on the horizon). And no doubt, as they see us coming, they too are doing everything they can to keep going.

But rest assured we are not going to stop trimming and tweaking every sail in our wardrobe until we cross the finish line!