Monday 1:00 PM.
Yesterday saw light winds so we tried to get south to better breeze. It seems to have worked as we're sailing fast in 15-20 knots of breeze. We're now southernmost boat in our class We hope to make up lost ground today. Hula Girl also took a dive south. We finally saw another boat this morning as passed one that started a day in front of us. We're trailing only Hula Girl boat for boat in our classbut 2 other boats are currently correcting in front of us.
Steve is wearing a speedo. Apparently he didn't get the dress code memo. We had a bit of drama last night as we wrapped a spinnaker around the forestay during a jibe. Ian had to go up the mast twice to unwind it. That's not fast. But everyone is now having great time in excellent sailing conditions even if we are a bit smelly.
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Those of you checking Roxanne's progress on Flagship Tracking Services (http://trackinfo.fistracking.com/pc2008/) have probably noticed that Roxanne's position hasn't been updated since 10:30pm on July 17th. As Greg's post suggests, they're still very much in the race! Their transponder stopped working due to water intrusion and their attempts to repair have been unsuccessful.
You can at least get a daily update by checking the Daily Standings on the Pacific Cup 2008's home page: http://www.pacificcup.org/. This is updated at 9am daily.
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