Everything is relative, like Einstein said. Luxury for example. For some people luxury means driving around in a Bentley, living in a castle and having a bunch of butlers serving meals and drinks every time you ask for it.  On VO70 you appreciate another kind of luxury. As soon as we started sailing north, from [...]

It will be a busy on deck and at the nav desk on the Delta Lloyd tonight.  Two sail changes and a gybe are on the menu. For the past 36 hours, we have been a very happy crew as we gain on the fleet with every position report.  The boat is on fire….(metaphorically speaking, of [...]

As it’s Friday, I thought I would put down the heavy duty of bringing you the gritty reality of life on board Team Russia, so for today I will leave the normal topics of water, waypoints and whales to the other little bloggers. My story started on land way back in the summer, thousands of [...]

At the end of what has surely been one of the toughest-ever legs of the Volvo Ocean Race or even The Whitbread as it used to be known, the eight-strong fleet has finally pointed their bows north, away from the wet and wild winds of the Southern Ocean.  At least for a short while anyway. In [...]