• Podium place for Tango

Tango took the 3rd place in the Cape Town Inport Race. The beat after start was important and we find a very good way.  Lattjolajbanladan (SWE) took the victory in front of Zappe (?).

• Tango reached Cape Town

1 nov – 19:10 UTC The top competitors has reached the harbour in Cape Rown during today. The first to pass the finnish line was the german Brainaid. Congratulations to germany and Brainaid. Well done! Because of the light winds just outside the finnish, it became a close finnish. Second boat to reach Cape Town was Oceanspray (SWE) and third was NOR_Sam (NOR). My father with the blue boat,  Farmor did a very good last day of this race and passed the finnish line as number five four. Even my mother Mistli did a very good race, 16th place. By the way, it is her birthday today. So on board Mistli served birthday cake. Some minutes later Tango reached the finnish in place 23. After a long and hard race with many good competitors I’m satisfied with this 23rd place. Now i is two weeks of repairs and maintenance of the boats before the next leg to India.

• Busy days

31 oct – 13:30 UTC I’m back with my computer. It’s not easy to write a blog in a boat sailing in rough seas in southern Atlantic. But now the wind is decreasing. Only 9m/s. I’m a little bit worried about our southerly position, but the latest weather forecast looked better for us in south. The germans K3 and Brainaid looks good, but it is not many miles between the boats. Tomorrow afternoon we know who are the winner of the first part och this Ocean race.

• We are on the train!

28 oct – 19:00 UTC 30 knots or more! The boats flying to South Africa and the leader board has change a lot. The former leaders, the tripple boats Timshuwalow, Ceciliacolling and SWEAUS has falling down to places aroud 50, more than 110 Nm behind the new leader SunFast. Borrasca is in second and Uffe8 is third. Even the most southerly boats like Blur and Amigo de Boteco1 are loosing ground. Tango has flied up to fourth during the day. But I think the nearest boats in north will overtake us in the next 24 hours. They have better wind angle.

• Cape Town next

27 oct – 17:30 UTC The wind is back, and more are coming. We are waiting for the crazy Eastern Express, and I hope we get tickets for first class. There will be a tough ride soon. The weather forecasts shows hard winds.

• Heading south again

26 oct – 09:40 UTC The South Antlantic High is playing with us. It is really hard to be a navigator in this situation. If we are going east, there is a high pressure with light air, if we go south we find another high pressure with no wind. But I think we must go south.

On our starbord side we have the finnish boat Laiska. Laiska has just gybed south too. Away out of sight, we have also The Germans K3 and Brainaid.

• Multihull?

26 oct – 07:40 UTC Ceciliacolling, timshuwalow and SWEAUS is following each other as if it is an multihull.