Telefónica Blue has made its stop. How do I feel? Not very happy, but we have to carry on and see if we can claw back all the lost miles. Still a long way to go, and we know we can sail optimal again.

We were moored overnight in between all the big container ships, as the marina was closed, because of the all the damage a big storm caused 2 days ago over here. The shore crew, formed of Campbell, Maria, Claas, Clayton and Stu have done AN EXELLENT JOB .They set up a temporary workshop, and had a car full of tools with them.

Just after arrival we had a short chat with them, and their wish was to do all the work themselves, and they sent us off to a local hotel for a couple of hours of sleep. Back at the boat at 0630, and they shore crew was just washing the decks off, WELLDONE everybody.

We are now motoring to the place where we stopped, not much breeze, about 4 knots, but so be it. Just over an hour to go, before we can re-start again.

The other boats had a re-start as well and can imagine that the Ericsson boys are feeling sick, as they had an excellent first day, but now got caught up again by the rest.

Bouwe (Bouwe Bekking - skipper).

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The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain, on 4 October 2008 with in-port racing, it will, for the first time, take in Cochin, India, Singapore and Qingdao, China before finishing in St Petersburg, Russia for the first time in the history of the race.

Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles, stopping at 11 ports and taking nine months to complete, the Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier yacht race for professional racing crews.