Hello Friends-

We are now on Day 12 of Leg 3 of the Globe40 RTW race going from the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean to Auckland, New Zealand. The voyage is somewhere around 7,000 miles in distance and will take between 30 and 35 days. The early goal has been to get South into the prevailing Westerly winds and it has taken us quite a while to do that. We endured upwind conditions, then were becalmed for quite a while, and only now are we finally in the Westerlies and flying along at an average boat speed of 12k but frequent surfs in to the high teens and low twenties in winds of 17-40k...Read More >