JAMAICA reducing the deficit

After the disastrous spinnaker wrap on Tuesday JAMAICA finds herself in 10th position and 100 miles behind the rest of the fleet.

As the illustration above shows we are still to round Sata Misaki off the Southern tip of Japan whilst the other boats are already in the Pacific ocean, the largest ocean on Earth.

There is still a huge way to go in this race with the first boats scheduled to arrive in Hawaii on 20th March.

JAMAICA has managed to make up some lost ground over the past 12 hours as they have been enjoying stronger winds in the Yellow Sea than the rest of the fleet in the Pacific where the winds have dropped to some 5 knots. We will have to reduce the deficit as much as possible before the next big winds hit later today.

Let us hope that the bad luck which his beset JAMAICA is behind us as the crew looks forward to a safe and enjoyable crossing of the mighty Pacific.