TEAM RUSSIA EMAIL: 'Getting ready for the fast and wet sailing ahead'

Sunday 26 October 17:48

Team Russia – Andreas Hanakamp (Skipper)

Today it was getting quite busy on the water. While we haven’t seen ships for a while we saw several today, racing with us south.

The morning was full of boat preparation to get ready for the fast and wet sailing ahead. As we still get water into the boat, Guillermo was allowed some Sikaflex and he stuffed it on top of areas that might leak. If you look at his sailing gear, it must have been leaking heavily. Nick (Bubb) sealed the companionway, Jeremy (Elliot), Ben (Costello) and Cam (Cameron Wills) bricked some sails we will not use over the next few days for ease of handling and Nick and I had check on our hand sewn custom ram boots which are working fine.

We can’t wait to hook into the low developing at 35S and which should give us some boost tomorrow allowing us to point the bow towards Cape Town.

In interviews via the Inmarsat phone we are regularly being asked, whether we miss any of the amenities of dry land. I can only say, that on board Kosatka I haven't heard any conversation about restaurants, fresh clothes, proper food, cinemas, etc.. I think we all look forward to getting to Cape Town, but not because we miss the comfort. We look forward meeting families and friends and visiting South Africa.