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THANK YOU2nd July, 2009

Over 37,000 miles completed, 10 legs, 11 stopover ports and so many memories along the way. It has been a tough campaign and an emotional rollercoaster at times but there is nothing else I would rather have been doing.

THANK YOU26th June, 2009

Time is running down in the 08/09 Volvo Ocean Race. We have had the last In Port race, the last pro-am race, the last day of corporate sailing and the last Green Dragon Party. We have had the last leg start and the miles are running down on leg 10. There will be a big void when this is all o

MY HEART IN MY MOUTH26th June, 2009

We have just passed over a rocky ledge between 2 islands and I had my heart in my mouth as the depth dropped to 1.9 metres below the keel - I prayed the chart was accurate and breathed a sigh of relief as the depth shot back up. That’s enough of those scares for 1 day. Other than that no real change out here in the Gulf of Finland.

HERE WE GO AGAIN25th June, 2009

Here we go again - sailing upwind and slowly losing miles. I will not miss this when the race ends. Fortunately it cannot last for days as St Petersburg is less than 300 miles away. What a great city Stockholm is - it is definitely another place on my list that I will need to come and visit again

COASTAL SAILING15th June, 2009

The wind has filled back in again out here in the Baltic and we have a mere 95 miles to go to Stockholm. It has been a tight battle all the way with Telefonica Black and Delta Lloyd. We have made a bit of a jump on Delta Lloyd recently and I just hope we can hold on to this edge over the next 5 or 6 hours. Tele Black are about 500 metres ahead so we are keeping the pressure on them. We can still see the leaders ahead but it would need a ‘park up’ for us to catch them from here.

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