Telefónica
Blue Leg 1 Day 10
01:44 GMT 20 October 2008.
From onboard
Telefónica Blue
and the Volvo Ocean Race Media Team.
A very
strange area we sail in. Last night was just horrible,
lots of big clouds and plenty of rain. The first five
minutes the boys on deck thought it was quite enjoyable,
to have a fresh shower, but then they got cold.
The worse thing was that the breeze disappeared completely
for about 2.5 hours. The Ruskies who were just 5 miles
behind us and 10 miles further east, sailed right passed
without stopping. We did many sail changes as the breeze
went twice a complete 360 degree turn around, before
settling in again a bit.
Telefónica Blue / ESP (Bouwe Bekking / NED) hunting
down the fleet after a 12 hour stop in Algeciras, on the western side of the Bay of Gibraltar to repair their steering.
Dinner tonight was not a success for some of us.
We had mincepot, but hardly any mince to be found. Jono
(Jonathan Swain) reckons he can sail around the world
without any teeth, as a lot food we have is like a baby
food.
We had to find a mix of food, the spicy food is made
in New Zealand and more for the likes of the international
guys, the 'baby food' is from the Netherlands and more
orientated for the Spanish blokes. As well Xabi (Xabier
Fernandez) got a present didn't know about. His wife
had given a package to Gabry (Gabriele Olivo). He got
a small plastic horse and a baby suit, maybe a hint mom
is pregnant? But as well his wife had packed a little
flagon of rum, which Xabi shared with Laurent (Laurent
Pages), who has his birthday today.
As well big congratulations to our CEO Pedro Campos who
won with the Telefónica team a world championship in
Lanzarote. For the Telefónica team this is 12+1 world
title. Why 12+1, there was a famous motorbike rider in
Spain, Angel Nieto, who was very superstitious, so when
he won his 13th title he called it 12+1, everybody is
Spain knows this term.
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