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News from on board Winsome III
August 15, 2013
Yesterday, Tuesday the race continued. Business as usual. Watches of 4 hours in day time, 3 hours in night time. At 0200 UTC we covered 237 Nm, already 15 Nm less than Foggy Dew. It looks we cannot keep pace with Noel Racine and his crew. I personally had the feeling that speeds recorded in […]
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News from on board Winsome IV
August 15, 2013
Finally, on Wednesday 14th of August at 0345 UTC, we rounded the Fastnet Rock, or is it called nowadays Rolex Fastnet Rock? We rounded it rather close, much closer than many of our competitors, I could observe on AIS, but not as close as Rambler in 2011 (?), so our keel did not get into […]
Post by Joost Heikens | August 15, 2013 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
News from on board Winsome V, last Fastnet update for 2013
August 17, 2013
We finally finished knowing that a 10th place would the best we could achieve in the Rolex Fastnet Race 2013. We came closer indeed to Mefisto, but never less than 3,5 Nm whereas we had to finish ahead of them based upon our TCC’s. When we finished we were recorded as 10th but two hours later we […]
Post by Joost Heikens | August 17, 2013 | 3 Comments | Comments RSS