by Tom Addis (navigator)
There has been a sudden change in the decision making today. Instead of choosing lines based on satellite images, quikscats and model output, we've got an island in the way and it’s quite a big one - Fiji. Four hundred miles on the bow and it’s about 200 left to right as we look at it, so it has a huge bearing on how we sail the next two days.
We are at our tightest angles since the start now and the yacht feels more constrained than before - the guys above us have a slightly freer angle to the top of Vanua Levu than us, especially the Dragons, so we are holding our breath a bit!
Can't complain too much, we've had a great run the last 24hrs through some very unstable weather and have pulled the front runners back by a massive amount, to the stage of almost being in the same patch of water now.
Just got the last sched in at 07Z - has us in second, which is a bit of a shock - second maybe on distance to the finish via East Cape in NZ, but reality is a bit more complicated and we certainly don't feel in our hearts (or brains more importantly) that we are honestly in second yet.
Tonight's squall activity is just starting to get going now. Will be another busy night.
Adios amigos - that's two Spanish words now.
Volvo Ocean Race
Thursday 26 February 2009
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