One Hull - Ned's Blog

5/12/11  Hi there Thanks to all of you for following me in my journey and for all your encouraging comments. Mum told me how much interest there has been. I hope to get the photos I promised in Tuesday's blog, and Tim and I have been working on a short movie which will have its premiere tonight and I will try and put up here over the weekend. Today I've been sitting in cafés around the marina chatting about the race and having bacon rolls and hot chocolate whilst we changed our flights - we got here so quickly that we have now changed to an earlier date. We fly from a Carribean night in T-shirt and shorts, to a December Gatwick Saturday morning in the warm clothes we never used! Over the coming days we will be working half-days on the boat to clean her up and stow everything. read more...

One Hull - Ned's Blog

04/12/11 Hi everybody,We made it (believe it or not) !!!!!! As we crossed the line, I took the time. We took a total time of 13 days, 22 hours, and 54 minutes. This was exactly one hour and 6 minutes inside a fortnight since we started in Las Palmas - seems like forever - "an ocean away". And when we docked, it was a "healthy" burger for me!! The final placing : We are 1st in our class, the 11th boat across the line, and  8th single-hulled boat! And the first children - "the fastest kids in the Atlantic"! So... "What was the best bit?" Surfing down waves with the spinnaker up at almost 15 knots in the middle of the night with millions of stars above our heads "What was the most exciting bit?" Sighting land for the first time in two weeks "What was the scariest bit?" Blowing out the. read more...

One Hull - Ned's Blog - 3/12/11

Hey there, Today we broke the 100 mile mark. Right now there's only 85.4 miles to go! We will hopefully arrive in St. Lucia at about midday tomorrow.    There are 3 boats behind us> We made 0.6 miles on them in five minutes. Today I made bread for lunch. To go with it, I cooked some Chorizo!! It was delicious (if I do say so myself!)! I saw a satellite this evening. It only took 2 minutes to go from horizon to horizon. In fact, it orbits the earth in 1 hour and 40 minutes (wish we were that fast!). Despite the skies being "overcrowded", this is the first we have seen. One star was twinkling very brightly, due to the cooling down of the atmosphere. Nearly there! Ned. read more...

One Hull - Ned's Blog

Hi   We are getting closer towards the finish and it is hotter on board - in different ways!   Today has been the hottest so far (though we haven't got a thermometer to measure it), and humid. The Trade Wind clouds have been dissipating as we approach land and the wind has started to get lighter. We have been trying to keep our current spinnaker up as long as possible, and save 'Big Bertha' (our secret weapon) for the last minute.   The competition has also been getting hotter as the boats near the finish line and racers from all over the ocean converge on the one spot. Normally at long range, 5 miles gained or lost does not make a lot of difference, but now just one mile can be a life or death racing situation. We snuck past Acool Turabi today when they had what seemed to. read more...

One Hull - Jan's Blog

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