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26 Jun 14:42
Onboard Ericsson 4, June 26, 2009, 1515 GMT – Leg 10
It’s sunny, calm and we’re going over 11 knots, but still it isn’t really enough for the Ericsson 4 posse!
We can see the first four boats ahead, but by a fair margin and we can just make out the boats chasing behind. It’s pretty dull onboard today - nothing really to fight for. I said we wouldn’t ever be able to cruise this boat - and we are not, but it does feel a lot like a delivery at the moment.
Sleeping is easy and aided by a bottle of port we have had with lunch to celebrate the first birthday of our thoroughbred - or best of breed in this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. Yes, the mighty Ericsson 4 is 1 year old today and it transpires that we have almost (within a couple of hundred) acheived 50,000 nautical miles in the girl!
That would be an extreme total of miles for a travelling carpet salesman in his Ford Mondeo, or whatever is the vehicle of choice of those who wear suits and live off food from motorway service stations whilst bedding down in travel inns for the majority of their working week.
Ericsson 4 has served us very well and we hope we can finish off the last 100 NM in a respectful manner, deserved of a true world class champion which is what this yacht is.
Good job Ericsson 4 - the pleasure has been all of ours - Happy Birthday!
Guy
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