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Yesterday morning at 10:30 on the birthday of Sir Robin the race committee has taken the very difficult decision to postpone the Clipper Race 19/20 and evacuate all crew from the Philippines. I cannot imagine what this meant for Sir Robin who’s biggest desire is to see us at sea sailing. This means that CV23„The end – for now“ weiterlesen

Here we are. Arrived yesterday after 5 days of racing. And I mentioned it so many times. It was hot. We were not where we could have been in the race. We at least were aiming for a much better result. But a chain of self enforced errors did not allow us to be in„who knows?“ weiterlesen

We are back from sea. And yes we have all we need, our boat. Due to immigration procedures we are stuck at the dock. the bar delivered drinks. please look at a review of sailing memories from leg 6 RACE 9.

There was a password problem. Therefore here the news from the boat in one go. Pictures will come later. Dad Day 1 Racing:Position outside of Subic Bay. Went out for sail practice getting us prepared for a 17:00 race start. But for organizational reasons this has been postponed to 29:00 local or noon in Europe.„News from the boat as I did send them“ weiterlesen

And now it is happening – Race day. You might not see an update for the next four to five days as I am racing off the West of the Philippines. But for sure I will come back once we will get through the finish line back to Subic Bay Thanks for your attention.

It was a busy day. Stephen and I came in in the morning to make final touches to food storage and location. We found more stuff. And at 11 am we had the crew brief of all crews about the details on the course, the weather the overruling safety instructions and some very good media„Almost there – the day before“ weiterlesen

The review of today will be short and simple because I actually was very busy with Stephen to master a mountainous task today. We scheduled to meet at 08:30 in the boat house to review our strategy for victualing the boat for the short sprint race that is up ahead and will start the day„Exposure“ weiterlesen

After we checked in yesterday and we got our crew brief about the new route and arrangement we became so to speak official member of the team and crew. Our passports were taken away at registration. Now there is no hiding and running away. Skippers meeting at 09:00 am sharp. And as I cam late„Another day in Subic Bay“ weiterlesen

Second day in Subic Bay everybody was excited and had big expectations. Today would be the day where the decision of Clipper will be shared where we will be going. A crew brief had been scheduled at 05:30pm after the registration of the newbies, the leggers for leg 6. Speculations had been flying around for„Certainty- we know where we go“ weiterlesen