Team Washington DC supporters update 20th January The stories we tell ourselves about luck on this race are curious ones. We often reach for luck as an explanation; sometimes fairly, sometimes as a convenient way to avoid confronting harder truths. In reality luck’s influence varies. There are events we frequently label as bad luck; sail... Continue Reading →
DC supporters update 21st November By now many of you will know that we had an encounter of the very large and very unexpected kind: we hit a whale in the South Atlantic. I’m sure you’re keen to know what really happened, so here goes. After nearly one hundred thousand miles at sea, you develop... Continue Reading →
Life onboard during an 11-month circumnavigation brings with it a rhythm that becomes strangely ordinary, even in the most extraordinary of environments. In the daily grind of sailing our routine of wakeups, watches, sail changes, and meals, can begin to blur together. Even in the middle of vast oceans or under starlit skies, life can... Continue Reading →
