YOLO : February 2014

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

RETURN DELIVERY

YOLO is being delivered back by a professional skipper, MArk Devit, with his first mate Ross Cole and one crew member. They Departed Rio on Monday, 3rd February 2014 around midday Brazilian time. They can be viewed on the tracker.

Summary

In summary of the Race:

For us, the Race team, we found the race a light wind event, this time around, taking longer then expected. The Gale that was had, the winds were in the 50’s with high seas, but nothing we had not experienced before. We took it conservatively through that section. The boat performed brilliantly with no problems being experienced. We had sufficient food, water and Diesel(for Charging). The start was fantasic, albeit a bit light and the last 18 hours to the finish line were the highlight, sailing continually fast.. the boat was revelling in those conditions. The crew were a happy bunch..

So, another Race, another Transatlantic.. Given the weather systems, we were pleased at our Class 2 win.

Some questions that have been asked:

Q. What were your shifts?

A. 2 hours on, 2 hours off.

Q. Did you get enough sleep?

A. You get into a routine and in fact most of the time one woke up after around 40 min, sometimes going back to sleep.. One tries to sleep during daylight hours as well in order to accumulate rest.

Q. Did you use a watermaker?

A. No. We carried all our water.. in this way we would be absolutely sure of what we had and not reliant on a machine for survival.

Q. What type of food did you eat?

A. Largely canned foods, and dry foods like Rice, pasta etc.. We ate largely oats for breakfasts and snack type foods at lunch. We were well fed.

Q. How did you manage the storm.?

A. We largely sailed through it fully reefed. When the winds were over 50, we dropped the main for a few hours.

Q. What weather routing did you use?

A. We used an android app called Sail Grib WR.. which had all the Polars etc.. we found it very good and simple to operate.

More questions and answers, as and when we get questions it will be posted.