Monday 2nd to Tuesday 3rd January 2017
We heard that one of the yachts in the 2nd start, Black Pearl, shot out of Cape Town like a champagne cork, doing over 20 knots. Considering we were only doing an average of 6-7 knots we would be needing to look over our shoulders quite soon. In a following swell we were sometimes momentarily achieving up to 14 knots of speed as the boat surfed down the waves. Every time the boat accelerated down ...
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