South China Sea, Philippines
Leg 5: race 8 day 5
Was woken at 5.30 but hadn't been able to sleep much as we had tacked and I was struggling to stay in my bunk
On deck at 6 and it was all go! Couldn't believe when I went to my bunk 4 hours earlier we had no wind and had put the wind seeker up. We now had 30 knots of wind so had 2 reefs in. When I got on deck we tacked then took down the Yankee. Full on hard work with the boat heeled over lots of waves. We secured the Yankee on deck and k...