La Rochelle -I owe you a story on the Hull to La Rochelle race that our team won. But have been ridiculously busy with working on the boat and sampling the local beverages and food. La Rochelle is a really nice old town and they sure know how to feed their people. It is all very exhausting and I am glad in some way that we are going sailing again tomorrow morning. Though it still does not seem real that we will actually leave La Rochelle and not set foot on land before we have crossed the equator and crossed an ocean to arrive on a different continent on a different hemisphere, where low pressure areas flow in the opposite direction and some say the toilet flushes in the other direction as well... I just hope the sailing will be as fabulous as on the way through the Channel from the North Sea to here with the wind in the back and constant comfortable speeds of 11 knots (11 nautical miles per hour) not too many sail changes, no reefs and plenty of spinnaker (big balloon sail) sailing. Also I hope we will get better in making custard...
Big brother (the North One TV camera man) has moved onto the boat and has placed camera's everywhere so no more cock ups. 07:00 we will slip our lines and we expect to arrive in Brazil some 28 days later. I'll keep you posted!
