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Eggs, bacon, dark yellow mature Cheddar on brown bread.
Following the spinnaker. Frida passed. See if we can catch up again now we have some more wind again.

Wouter (captain) & JanKees (asleep)

That’s what kept us up last night. Keep the boat going. Slowly sliding trough the puffs. Bright Orange Royal spinnaker on. Hoera! Hoera! Hoera!

Our hydrogen works more than properly. Amazing device. Except for the stove, we are carbon neutral.

Wouter (captain) & JanKees (technician)

Max or Max Verstappen? Doesn’t matter. Both is to the max. Average of 10.22 kts in the last 24 hrs. 22-24 kts Tws, full main, (big blue) Code0.
3 gybes.
Blue sky.
Coffee.

Wouter (captain) & JanKees (crew)

Bright shining moon. We can read a book on deck whole night. Gentle breeze carries us to the wsw. No shipping and no fishing so far. Heading for the stairs to the deeper pool.
Lost the 60 foot IMOCA which we’d expected. Have one sticky multihull in our wake. See if we can shake that off during the early hours. Wouter does the routing and the trim.
So far so good. Fun and good meals.

Ahoy,

Wouter (captain) & JanKees (cook)

Only hours to the start at 12bst tomorrow.

Friday afternoon. Checklist done. Shoppings done.Last briefing this morning. Weather forecast is superb! Downwind for the entire track. If we are fast enough to round the low over the Azores on the west side.
5 days something? We’ll try.

For those who want to follow the tracker.
Download https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/yb-races/id452193682?l=en

Select the Azab 2023 race.

With love from La Promesse,

Wouter (captain) & JanKees (cook)

La Promesse finally has a berth in Scheveningen. And we subscribed for the Vuurschepenrace, North Sea Race, AZAB and Fastnet!

Yes, Fastnet for the first time. And guess what? All three boys Lampe will sail Fastnet in IRC0 but on three different boats. Jankees (La Promesse) and Floris (Van Uden) and Wouter (Bolsius/Boudragon).

Going to be a lot of fun!

Zijn we weer!
Nu we een dag en nacht in Plymouth hebben doorgebracht, waren we klaar voor leg 2 vd rit. Next stop is Cowes of Portsmouth, (ligt aan de beschikbare ligplekken met 4m diepgang 🙂 )
Het begon allemaal heel mooi met 16 knoopjes van achteren, lekker achter de asymmetrische spi hangen.
Nu is het aan de stalen fok om ons voort te trekken/duwen. Met stroom tegen en een spiegelgladde zee is er gewoon geen andere optie. Gelukkig hadden wij hierop geanticipeerd en 25liter diesel getankt, en das n hoop voor de 12 paarden onder onze navigators-chair.

50°20.770’N 2°56.255’W
21:11UTC

48 34.600N 7 26.780W
14:29UTC

Nog 168mijl. 18 uur.

De zee is weer grijs/groen en de golven knobbelig. diepte meter slaat binnekort ook aan. Welkom op het continentaal plat 🙂

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