Cam Lewis and team will be taking the hard workers on a cruise before departing. The repairs are complete, the epoxy resin needs time overnight to cure properly. Rosenfeld said the boat would take aboard the boat building crew that has labored continuously for the past four days to complete the repairs. They will help set sail and make a couple of speed runs, sampling the awesome power of the big cat before they disembark and Team Adventure turns her bows south to the Roaring Forties. The bulkheads and the underside of the deck on Club Med are dripping wet.
Nothing dries out aboard the catamaran, there are constant blasts of spray.
There is no way to dry your oilskins or your polar thermal underwear. Thursday they had a few hours of sunlight, the first in the last few days - they siezed the opportunity to dry out some gear. She covered more than 400 miles today, only 8 miles less than Club Med, and crossed the Greenwich meridian. They are flying 1,200 sq. Thay have also lowered the big gennaker and tested the patched reacher.