Well done all, hope your getting used to the shift/watch system. Following your progress with so much envy. How are you finding the code zero? Is it worthy of the hype? Stay safe and drink some rum 🥃

Wow!  What a trip!  The three of us; Ian. Andrew & Chris made it from Southern Brittany across the Bay of Biscay, making landfall in A Coruna in Galicia.  It wasn’t all plain sailing, in particular on our first night we sailed straight into the thunderstorms that ended up hitting Poole on Saturday afternoon - we had massive lightning bolts hitting the sea in front of us, and spectacular bolts running through the clouds, so we turned west…… we had more in front of us so we headed north, then they started getting closer and we headed back across our original track and the wind gusted up to a Force 7 out of the blue.  Finally we could see a gap between the thunderstorm cells on the radar so we snuck through it and came through unscathed!
Other than that it was mostly plain sailing; the new Code Zero sail came out to play a few times and having the Starlink on board was amazing in terms of getting up to date weather forecasts.  As we neared the Spanish coast we negotiated a sprawl of Spanish fishing boats and also switched the depth sounder off in order to try not to attract the orca (that delight in attacking yacht rudders), steering by hand for the last 10 hours as another mitigation measure, then to be thrown the fog, for which Galicia is renowned, for the last 3 hours or so…..All whilst getting used to the sleep deprivation of working to a watch system in a relatively confined space.  Good job we all get on well together!
Very happy to be here, looking forward to a solid night’s sleep, but not until after a few beers have been dealt with!

Audierne. Brittany to A Coruna, Galicia

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