The past 24-hours have been the most testing in the Volvo Ocean Race so far, as the fleet battled high winds and a confused sea on leg two to Cochin in India.  The worst effected was the Green Dragon team (Ian Walker/GBR), who broke their boom shortly before 1100 GMT this morning.  This came after [...]

This is the fourth day at sea, and we are holding a nice third place.  Here we go the BLACKIES! After a really difficult night, dealing with big breeze and nice swell mixed with crossed waves, dawn saw us hitting up to +30 knots on the right heading. We were supposed to start heading up but [...]

Not to sound like I am whinging, but I think I will anyway. Last night sucked.  OR it was great –if you are a boat builder or a sailmaker looking for work.  Yikes.  The proverbial ‘you know what’ hit the fan when we got about as vertical in a sailboat as you ever want to be [...]

Again, I would have to be here to believe it. The Agulhas Current snakes around like a giant serpent and with every twist it throws up either a good or bad current and an ever changing sea state. All we can do is to try to minimise the time we spend in the bad bits [...]