After not enough sleep and almost certainly too many coffees, I began wondering in the early hours of the morning if this whole race is some crazy psychological experiment.  My mood has changed dramatically in recent hours and the reason behind it is eight small lines of data that are sent to the boat every [...]

Our patient Laurent (Laurent Pages/FRA) will never complain, that is not his art, but you can see he is in lot of pain, and most likely out for the rest of the leg. He is not happy, as he has never had a major injury in his life, but we told him we cannot turn [...]

It’s been another day of great sailing on the Delta Lloyd.  We’ve had some great postion reports this afternoon so the guys are in great spirits as we pull some distance back on the leaders.  We switched from our fractional code zero to our downwind masthead VMG sail this afternoon as the wind settled from [...]

At last, two minutes to breath! I have just come off deck having peeled to our largest spinnaker; it’s a great feeling to be under max sail. The first few days have been testing to say the least, with a tricky first day followed by big wind and close racing, all of which have, of [...]