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Spinnaker Nightmares

Unqiuely Singapore seems to be labouring under a spinnaker curse over the last two days as we have had constant major repairs to make to our light weight kite. On Wednesday evening we had been sailing along with the kite up happily for a few hours when Watch B accidentally wrapped it around the inner [...]

First Night on Uniquely Singapore.

Well, we are off again, after a very light wind start that saw the fleet drift out of La Rochelle at 10am local time this morning. Our sailing instructions were minimal and simply read: Start, La Rochelle, Finish, Rio de Janerio.
We spent the morning sitting on the leeward rail, changing from windseeker to the light [...]