July 8th Report, 0600PDT, 24.00N, 135.56W, TWD 045 @ 15 knots, Pressure 1016, Cloud Cover 95 percent, Sea State 6-9 feet, 24 Hours 221nm, DTF 1222nm.
I handed the reigns over to Californian Correspondent Ben yesterday and he neglected to put up the stats for the day - there now above.
Finally! From its apex at nearly 40 miles our favorites managed to grind down and slip by the (Blood) Hounds yesterday, currently leading them by a Narrow (get it?) 3 miles. Lets hope they can hang on to that and get to work on the handicap amount (almost 36 hours!) they owe the Hounds. In fact if I squint I can sort of visualize this improving trend vis-a-vis their whole fleet - except as concerns Relentless - we may need to call in an air strike on them! But even in their case they are not extending any more so let's break out the party favours and start planning their acceptance speech!
The handicap trouble was exacerbated when they hit that light spot (understatement of the year). The whole fleet converged and had a restart. So they still need to save all that time but the race track to do it on is diminished by about 25 percent. Compounding their problems Baby Dart/Narrow Escape/Plan B is not at her best in the light going.
But I have been very pleased to see them putting up some big days. So pleased in fact you will notice that I am now even posting under my own name!
Cap't Billy on the Blog
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