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These are easy miles, these. Close reaching in flat water, making20 knots of boat speed in 16 knots of wind, there is littlediscomfort other than the rising temperature. In these conditionsit takes little effort to keep our Mar Mostro moving well throughthe water. The boat moves effortlessly and were it not for theoccasional fast moving spray along the rail, it would be difficultappreciating how fast we"re actually going. Life on deck isquiet, calm, and dry, and you begin to see the potential in theseboats when they"re hitting their stride. A puff hits andinstead of heeling over, they accelerate rapidly: 16, 17, 18,19…it doesn"t take much to make the numbers climb! It feels like we"ve only had a handful of these days over thelength of this race, but the reward is always worth the wait. Afterall we"ve been through, some of the miles we"ve had toearn in utter misery, spent slamming upwind in gale force winds,slatting for days under clouds, slowing the boat down in SouthernOcean waves, it"s great watching progress pile up in relativecomfort. We"re back to having Parmesan cheese with salamislices, beef jerky, and an ever-abundant collection of chocolate,but this time it"s all served on deck. Our middle-of-the-road position seems to have worked all right,too. We haven"t fallen into the inshore duo of CAMPER and AbuDhabi who are sailing in stronger winds, and we haven"t lostmuch to Groupama and Telefónica, further offshore in lesscurrent. We"re still more or less in between the two packsand closing quickly on the ridge we need to pass to reach the tradewinds. It"s around 100 miles until the front, and thenanother 50 or so to the ridge, and the first boat to push throughboth of those gets a much-wanted jump start home to the north. - Amory Leg 6, Day 3 25 April 2012 LOCATION: 170 miles E of Campos, Brazil WINDSPEED: 17.4 kts BOATSPEED: 19.7 kts HEADING: 038-degrees DISTANCE TO EQUATOR: 1,500 miles See Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 images : Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 April 2012 ). The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as R404a Refrigerant , Azeotrope Refrigerant Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit R22 Refrigerant Replacement today!
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