Two nights ago we put the spinnaker up, and it's been up more or less nonstop since then. For the first 24 hours we were sailing tight reaching angles, with a few roundups...someone onboard who will remain nameless took to squealing in a high pitch voice 'blow the vang blow the vang!!'. We spent the day in sight of some of the doublehanded fleet, passing Valis and then Temerity. Every once in a while we could see a boat that we believe is Bequia from our fleet giving chase, reminding us to keep pushing.
Last night was like a 12 hour ride on space mountain. Blasting into the dark with the steaming light on to see the spinnaker, squalls, wipeouts, crash gybes. Not a whole lot of sleep going on aboard Lightspeed, but this is certainly why we are here.
Days run of 179 miles. We are looking forward to this morning's position reports to see how we fared against our fleet.
Keep the posts coming Jacob. My dad and I just read the updates up here in Tahoe. Sounds amazing (except the waste issue). Stay upright.
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