Leg 1

Various shots of crew as they appraoch Lisbon in the evening. On the rail, Annalise and Francesca, smiling, make hearts with their hands. Francesca: "Hello, Lisbon." Bleddyn on the helm.Below, Dee gives Bernardo a squeeze on the shoulder. Bernardo: "Right now we are .7 of a mile behind Brunel. Hopefully we are close enough to try to attack and finish ahead of them. It feels pretty good. We've had a long week, but sailing home always is more exciting. Hopefully we can get some of my local experience and squeeze one place into the finish." Shots of Bernardo talking to different crewmembers. Shot of Brunel ahead of them. Liz on the helm.Slomo shot of Martine watching dolphins jumping near them. Simeon steers.Drone shot circling AkzoNobel going to weather in light wind with the J0 and J3.Mark, sitting on the weather rail: "Only a few miles to go... and we're still in the lead. Hopefully a couple more miles, and we'll wrap this leg up with a victory."Charles talking below (in French). Anyone have a translation?Sunrise. Carolijn: "We have come from very far. We have fought really hard to get where we are. So I think we should be happy with a third place. It's a little early to say; it's not over till it's over." Horace: "We still working hard to catch MAPFRE and Vestas." Jack: "We've been at the very bad bit. Hopefully we can stay here or get further ahead." Sunrise. Charles talks below about wishing the race committee would shorten the course to avoid having to sail in the very light conditions at the end. Someone (Horace?) working on the outrigger. Jérémie on the helm.View forward before sunrise as the J3 (?) is being unfurled as a staysail. Sophie working the bow in the sunrise. Shot of the masthead. Foredeck work. Blair: The wind's been up and down all night and into the morning. Quite gusty between 18 and 12 knots, so we've been changing sails a little bit... So far so good... We've got about 60 miles to go now to Lisbon. Pretty nice sailing at the moment, but it's going to be tricky at the end, quite light wind. Guys have been telling me some good stories about past races into there." More foredeck work, grinding in the cockpit.Drone shots of Scallywag just before sunrise. Very close shot of the bow, long pull-back ascending of from the stern with the bright horizon ahead of them.Horace talks with Richard on deck in the morning. Richard: "At this point, how much would third place mean to you?" Horace: "Third place?" Richard: "Yeah." Horace (smiling): "We're not finished." Richard (laughs): "Good answer." Horace: "So... anything will be happening at the finish line. So we'll be, maybe, we'll finish by first, no?"Witty, on the helm: "Good morning, Lisbon! Here come the Scallywags of Hong Kong! We have Steven Hayles from the Steven Hayles Breakfast Show. We have Tom Clout from developing chin lines. And our favorite psychopathic safety officer John Fisher sucking down the porridge from behind. From behind!" John talks about where the different boats are in the race, to be shouted down by Witty. Witty: "You're boring! You're never gonna be a guest on the Steve Hayles Breakfast Show." Steve brushing his teeth; Steve: "The arrival?" Jérémie: "Yeah." Steve: "We're thinking of just keeping going. A practice lap. We're just gonna around again. Because we didn't do it right this time." They joke about the position of the pockets on Steve's jacket. Steve: "It's always been easy to predict the past, I find. The trick is predicting the future. I don't know where to put my hands."Alberto and Annie getting dressed below. Alberto: "We're gonna peel to the blade. And we're on the Masthead 0 right now. So we've got a little bit more breeze, and the blade is hopefully going to give us a bit more speed." Shot of Alberto on the bow and Annie on the foredeck rigging the new sail (the J0?), and then griding in the new sail in the cockpit. Peter: "We've been having a pretty good fight with the Turn the Tide guys for the last two days." Kyle: "A little bit frustrating. We make a bit of a gain and then lose again... They're not for slow, that's for sure." Peter discusses the belowdecks stack with a crewmember in the companionway. Shot of Bouwe looking serious on the helm.Nicolai just before dawn: "We're still chasing Dongfeng down a little bit. But they're doing a good job staying between us and Lisbon... We just hope we have enough runway to make it work... It's a drag race from here to Lisbon. To pass them, they need to do a mistake or we need to be a little bit lucky."Liz about Brunel: "It's pretty cool; it's pretty intense. We've been pretty close for a couple of days now. They're about 400 meters in front of us, sailing a little bit higher... It's just in the crossover of a couple of sails, and we're on different sails at the moment... We've got about 100 miles to the coast of Portugal, and it's gonna be pretty epic because we're bloody close." Then a shot of Brunel in front of them with the rising sun next to them.Slomo shot of Brad looking at the sunrise."Konrad stop filming me." Crewmembers bartering food below at night.Lucas talks about how close the racing is. Constantly learning. Bleddyn talks about how America's Cup experience helps one deal with adversity.We see them tacking from port to starboard, then stacking the sails forward on the port side. Interview with Willy (in Spanish) about Dongfeng. Sunset shot of the helm; closeup of a winch being cranked.Cockpit interviews near sunset. Annalise: "We're having a little battle with Brunel." Liz: Trying to get the navigator to move up the tack so she can go off watch. "The clock is ticking..." (taps watch). Dee laughs from the helm. Shot of Brunel on their weather quarter; Dee on the helm.Nicolai on the helm at sunset talking about getting to Lisbon. "A podium finish would be even better, but let's just get there first." Shot of the wake.Charlie on not getting too high or too low emotionally. "We've seen some things happen in this river before. It's not a very straightforward finish." Mark on the helm, sunset, slomo wake.Carolijn: "We're a bit like pirates, a like spies. We keep a check on each other." Carolijn looks through binoculars at AkzoNobel in the distance, then Pascal does the same.Martine talks about close action with Dongfeng. "It's been rewarding or disappointing. A bit of a competition, even between watches. You always want to perform well for your watch."Drone shots of Brunel going to weather in ~10 knots of wind with J0 and J3 (I think?). Last shot shows TTToP in the distance ahead and to leeward.SiFi at nav station talking about the other boats in the latest sched. "Looks pretty good." Brief shot of Hannah sitting to weather, forward, on the stack. Tom, shirtless, talks about trying to power up with the Code 0 after the wind dropped to 8 knots. "Just tweaking things; a bit of DJing" (gestures at pit area).Single drone shot of AkzoNobel going to weather with J0 and J3. Dongfeng visible in the distance behind and to leeward.Brad (gesturing at Dongfeng, off camera): "If we hold these guys off that'd mean we had 6th place. But if we hold these guys *and* the guys behind them off, that'd be 3rd place." Nicolai, on the helm: "That was funny. You're a funny man." Brad: "Stop it."Abby, below: "One thing I'm most looking forward to tomorrow when we get off this boat is a shower." Martin: "That's it?" Abby: "Well, it's a long list. But shower's at the top of the list. Food, fresh food, and sleep." Peter: "What I want the most tomorrow in Lisbon is to try to finish off this leg well... Some nice food would be good too. Freeze-dried is not too good... Burger, steak; whatever." Annie: "I think in Lisbon the most I want is a shower and a hair wash. Look at this [undoes her bun]. I've got disaster hair." Bouwe: "When I arrive? A better place than we're in right now. We're dead donkeys, so that's not very good. But then I have a second one, called my family." Carlo: "Pancakes. Banana/bacon pancakes. With some maple syrup." Alberto: "A big steak. The biggest possible. And then some good sleep."Witty, on the rail: "I'm looking forward to Lisbon... It's been our training camp. Looking forward to seeing Lenny on the dock. Looking forward to having a nice dinner with Lenny, and having a load of cracked pepper. After dinner. For dessert." Jérémie: "You're looking forward to get on the podium as well, right?" Witty: "Yes, yes; we'd love to get on the podium. But we'd love to just be fourth or even fifth at the moment. We just don't want to go back any more... A smart man told me once, Jérémie, it's not the first hundred yards that counts. It's the last hundred yards... No one's going to win the race in Leg 1... MAPFRE are fast. But I think throughout the race there will be lots of race winners. The boats are pretty close. Who knows, even the Scallywags might get there. Sooner than you think." Night shots with competitor's stern light ahead of them; pretty sure that's from the night before, before the virtual waypoint rounding, with the competitor being Dongfeng. Night view of mainsail's glow-in-the-dark tapes and stars overhead. Different crew grinding.Below, in the galley, Horace talks in Mandarin. The only thing I catch is "AIS". He seems excited, though, and finishes with a thumbs up.Wide drone shot of MAPFRE at sunset as they were approaching the virtual waypoint on the evening of October 26. More cool drone shots. Ñeti talks about how the virtual waypoint was good for them, because they did well against the other boats. (I think.) Blair working the pit. Xabi grinding. Below, Joan talks in Spanish about the approach to Lisbon. On deck, Ñeti talks about the tricky approach to Lisbon, and how that will be their best chance to catch up with Vestas. Blair and Ugo discuss who's in focus (first Ñeti, then Blair, then Ñeti again).Shot out the companionway as Dongfeng goes to weather on starboard in 15 knots of wind. Carolijn on the helm; Jack leans on the grinder pedestal. Charles, at the nav station, gives a position report (I think?) over a microphone to the cockpit. Horace, getting his foulies on below: "It's getting exciting. We are getting closer to the top three boats, and AkzoNobel is visible in the AIS area... We still have 20 hours until we are arriving in Lisbon. So... we are working hard." Above, Horace stands on the outrigger rigged at the shrouds, doing something to the clew of the J2 (?). Richard: "Smile!" Horace makes the "shaka" gesture. Jérémie on the helm, talks to Charles in French via the intercom, while Stu listens from the grinder handles. Horace works on the stack.Hannah, trimming in the dawn. Sunrise. Mark talks about how they've rounded the virtual mark with the fleet behind them. Talks about strategy from there to Lisbon. Hannah: "It's been a really nice sunrise, and we've had a couple of pods of dolphins come past, so you couldn't ask for more, really." Awesome slomo shots of dophins leaping alongside the boat.360-degree shots for VR phone apps. Shot from the cockpit, the mast, the stern, while Brunel sails on a reach.As AkzoNobel sails upwind on starboard, Simeon talks to the crew about what's happened in the fleet around them. Nicolai is on the helm; Emily looks at a tablet. Simeon: "Scallywag was hanging on, but they fell off, so they're 10 miles behind now... Light is on top, and pressure is there [gesturing to leeward]. Vestas is trying to defend. But actually MAPFRE went up higher... Options are still open."Ross talks to Simeon at the nav station. They're pointing out different boats. Simeon to Konrad: "MAPFRE slipped away underneath us. We thought we were doing the righ thting, but it must have gone still on the inside, and the rich got richer basically. Hopefully it will happen the same to us. We still have a little to go to the waypoint. But hopefully we'll make a gap with the rest of the fleet, and go for the hunt." Simeon rubs his face and forehead in apparent discouragement.Bianca, sitting on the weather rail with Annalise ahead of her. Bianca: "We are heading to a palm tree in the middle of nowhere. We've got Brunel over here somewhere [gestures to starboard], a couple of other boats up in front of us... Sailing with the MH0, J3, and full main."Sophie talks about how they had 20 knots of wind, then gybed and had the wind drop faster than they expected, so they changed to the Masthead 0 to keep the boat moving. Shot of Sophie working the bow. Shots of Xabi on the helm and Pablo in the cockpit; Sophie working the bow; Rob flaking a sheet; Blair and Willy grinding.Martine on the helm with a big grin on her face as AkzoNobel surfs and spray washes through the cockpit. Later, she talks to Konrad while Simeon steers in the background. Martine: "This morning was one of those moments that you think, that's why I do this. It was a pretty nice downwind, full-on surfing waves. It was pretty good."Steve, at the nav station, talks about the addition of the virtual waypoint to the course. Steve: "The nice thing is we're going downwind, and we're going fast. The boats are averaging over 20 knots now." Intercut with slomo shots of the washing machine. Steve: "It's a little bumpy at times. When you're reaching in these boats it doesn't take much wind for it to be uncomfortable. But no, so far it's been a relatively easy trip." Talks about benefits of racing next to Dongfeng and Brunel, "second-generation" in this race. Steve: "It's an opportunity to test and to learn." More slomo of the washing machine, Witty on the helm joking about the water on deck.Brunel surfing at sunrise on starboard gybe on the run north to the virtual waypoint. Abby on the grinder. Washing machine. Capey, in the companionway, calls up a position report to the sailors on deck. Capey: "AkzoNobel 22 or something on the bow; MAPFRE 26 on the beam [gestures to starboard]; the other guys [gestures to port]..." Carlo, standing astern: "It's good sailing; we're doing about 20 knots average. I think Vestas is behind us, I mean Turn the Tide, and Scallywag just a couple of miles in front of us. So we still have a bit of catching up to do. When we went around the rock we had a couple of issues, with again something under the boat, so we had to do another back down. It cost us a couple of miles. So Leg 1 maybe not going as well as we hoped, but still pushing." Slomo washing machine shots, wake, grinding (with overdubbed regular-speed audio).Awesome drone shots of Scallywag running on starboard gybe with the A3 and J3 staysail. The boat is surfing; wind appears to be close to 20 knots. I don't think I've seen any other drone shots showing the boat going that fast.Sophie, Blair, and Xabi in the cockpit as MAPFRE sails fast on starboard gybe; spray. Joan (?) eats below.Charlie grinds as they run in medium winds. Charlie: "It's a little wet and wild; I should probably be wearing a jacket." He talks about the wind, the competition, upcoming virtual mark. Slomo shot of sunrise and spray.Shots of a land bird (some kind of old world warbler, I think?) perched on Ross's head. He and Nicolai (on the helm) joke about it.Shot of crew in the cockpit at twilight; Liz on the helm but not sure about the other two. One crewmember gestures to a crewmember in the cabin to come out; another raises her hand to stop her just as a wave washes over the cabin. Appears to be joking going on about it.Xabi talks, first in English and then in Spanish, about the challenge of passing the Strait of Gibraltar, how it was the first time this team had been in that much wind together, and he thinks they did well and have recovered well. Then he talks about how it was a rough couple of days for them being out of touch with the fleet, but they pushed hard and did well, and now are approaching Madeira. Interesting that this clip must have been recorded the afternoon of October 25, but was posted two and a half hours after the one showing them rounding Porto Santo that night.Nicolas, at nav station at night: "We are rounding Porto Santo, just behind Brunel and Scallywag. We are going to hoist the A3 in a few minutes, and then go to the next waypoint which is a virtual mark." Night shot of working the pit as the sail change happens (unfurling the A3?).Night-time shot of the chart at the nav station showing the approach to Porto Santo. Night-vision shots of the crew working in the cockpit, changing a sail on the foredeck with spray. Below, Pablo talks in Spanish about their passing Porto Santo, the widely varying wind conditions they've been racing in, and the other boats. On deck again: more sail changing, a shot of the nighttime lights along the south shore of Porto Santo.Night. Red-light shots of crew dealing with a problem with a sheet (override?). Grinding, moving a sail on the stack.At night, sailing past turning mark at Porto Santo. SiFi talks about it from on deck with the nav tablet. Shot of lights on shore. (I totally had to check out Porto Santo in Wikipedia after seeing this, because I thought wow; that's a lot of lights.)Below, at night, Nick and Tom (I think) bail out the leaked ballast water with a bucket. Nick: "Basically we have 800 liters of ballast up to weather, and then a hose pops off, and we have 800 liters to leeward. You can feel it in the entire boat." Charlie, at nav station: "Ironically, I came down here to do a little performance analysis, because the boat didn't feel right. And when I sat down at the nav station I could hear water sloshing around in the back of the boat." Nick (putting tools away): "All fixed. Had to drain the jacuzzi."Witty, sitting in the cockpit, to Tom: "Can you not tell John Fisher that I fucking think he's a fuckwit? The safety officer?" Tom: "I don't think he heard you." Witty: "He measures the length of his fingernails before he goes to be every night. What sort of a psycopath does that?" Tom: "No." Witty: "Yeah, he does, I've seen him. The safety officer." John, smiling: "It's a good atmosphere on board. Everyone gets on pretty well on this team. There's a lot of frivolity and a bit of joking and mickey-taking. It helps break up the tension and serious moments. It's a good thing... I think we're all pretty happy. The realization is it's a hard race. The boat's are all very equal. You fight for every mile you can get, and every time something doesn't go quite right you lose miles." Witty grinding, mugging for the camera. John joins him on the handles. Witty: "What are you doing? Fuck off. *Fuck* off." Laughing. Shot of Scallywag sailing into the sunset.Shots of AkzoNobel sailing close-hauled toward the sunset in 7 knots of wind with the Masthead 0 and staysail.Horace, below at the galley: "I like it when we're arriving at the pontoon, at the shore, we have the fresh food. It's much better than this one." Marie: "Yes. Of course... It's food, so it's good for the body..." Horace: "Let me ask you a question: When you are arriving on the pontoon, what's the first thing you want to do?" Marie: "A big steak, with french fries!" Horace: "You don't want to shower?" Marie: "No... after." Horace: "We will have our beer, on the pontoon." Marie: "Celebrate our victory with all the team." Horace: "Victory!" Marie: "Yeah!" They laugh. Horace, to Richard: "You see?"Shots of crew sailing just after sunset: Liz (I think) on the helm, Dee on the port rail.Martin shoots a POV sequence of preparing a meal in the galley: filling the kettle, lighting the burner, pouring the meal pack into the insulated cooler, pouring in the water, closing the lid, then (later) dishing the bowl and handing it up to Abby in the cockpit. Abby: "Wow. Merci." Martin: "Pasta bolognese." Abby: "My favorite."Dee, lying on the weather rail with the afternoon sun behind her. Dee: "We are just under 200 miles from Porto Santo. We're sailing with the Masthead [0]. We've had really nice 10 knots consistent breeze all afternoon; glamour sailing." Talks about Brunel, Dongfeng, and Scallywag all in sight; where the other boats are. We know the wind is going to increase; we're going to need to do some sail changes."Slomo shots of bow wave, rudder, wake.Tony washes dishes in the galley. Tony: "Best way to wash your dishes: Salt water." SiFi at nav station discusses the latest position report. Charlie, from his bunk: "Interesting." SiFi talks to James about how it's been a tough night, but they now expect it to get a bit better.Brad, on deck, as AkzoNobel sails upwind in 7 knots with the Masthead 0 on starboard: "I guess the longest I've been at sea is a week. We're planning on doing three weeks plus. I think the days will slide by pretty quickly, especially after the first four or five days. I'm feeling optimistic. I'm enjoying it. I don't know how it will feel when we're doing the last long stretch across the Atlantic in eight months' time, seven months' time, but it's good fun so far." Slomo shots of Brad on the helm.Witty on the helm: "The pin's come out of the furling unit under load and the sail's dropped in the piss. I don't know how. But we recovered really nicely; could have cost us three spots. Boys did a good job. Boys and girls." (Tom takes helm back from Witty.) Witty: "Still don't know how the pin comes out under load; that's a bit of a mystery." Crash-cam night vision shot from stern looking forward. Masthead 0 suddenly comes free and falls over the side. Crewmember: "Oh, fuck!" Tom (?) (on the helm): "Everyone up! Gotta get (something) lowered. Gotta get the MH0 on board, J1 up. Everyone up!"A single drone shot in light winds as Dongfeng sails under Masthead 0 (I think) and staysail. Camera approaches from the port quarter at about 50 feet altitude, then rises and passes over the mastead and continues, showing an empty horizon.Martin shoots video of crew in the cockpit backwards through binoculars (i.e., by pointing the camera into the objective end of the binoculars), producing a vignetted fisheye effect.Dee and Liz at the nav station at night. Dee talks about adding the virtual waypoint as a palm tree.Slomo of Peter at the helm, Abby coiling line. Peter talks about how the first two nights of the race were such a contrast: quite windy the first night, very little wind last night. Talks about them sailing in a group of four boats trying to chase down the leaders. Under the Masthead 0. Peter: "We're learning a lot sailing along so close to these other boats for such a long period of time." Shots of Alberto on the helm, distant boat to leeward (I think Dongfeng).Charles, at the nav station, talks in French (about their position relative to the other boats? No idea, really. Need a french-speaking obsessive to help out with translation).Helmsman silhouetted againt the pre-dawn with Venus. Then, in daylight, Blair talks about how they're out of the light wind and into better breeze, and about Vestas. Sunrise.Jérémie on the helm, silhouetted against the sunrise, with two competitors visible behind them (per the tracker, TTToP on the left and Brunel on the right). Another shot, this time of Pascal looking at the other two boats. Clew of the Masthead 0. Later in the morning, Stu talks in the cockpit: "Battling it out for fourth through seventh here at the moment." Stu asks Pascal, below, if he has information from the 0700 position report. Pascal responds that he does, and starts reading it out. Stu winces. Stu: "A lot of work to do here." Carolijn cranking a winch; Horace stacking below.Liz, at sunset, talks about the competition around them: "We've got Brunel about 150 meters to weather of us, Scallywag about a mile and a half over there, and Dongfeng about a mile to leeward of us." Shots of the other nearby boats.Morning drone shot above Scallywag, showing two competitors in the distance. I think it's Brunel on the left and TTToP on the right. Dongfeng should be in the shot as well, but they were considerably farther away and maybe are obscured by clouds or something.Sunrise. Mark: "It's 7 in the morning. The sun just came up; a beautiful sunrise. We just got a position report." Talks about the different groups of boats, their hope for upcoming wind. Nick moves a sail.At the nav station at night, Ross points out things on the computer screen while Martine looks on brushing her teeth. Ross: "Yeah; super light. So we're just hanging into this stuff here, which was the lefty we got. Now we're into this righty, which is the header." Ross, talking to Konrad: "I think we've gone okay. Both Vestas and MAPFRE are both going really well. But I think it's been a trickier night for them... We've just got a little light spot to get through in the next hour, hour and a half, and then we get the breeze and can start pointing for Porto Santo." Shot of crew at the back of the boat before sunrise, with the dawn and Venus visible behind them.Charlie, at nav station at night, checks the latest position report. Charlie: "That's... whoa. If I did it right. SiFi's sleeping, so you never really know. But I just downloaded the 0100 position report and it looks pretty good. We gained back a bunch on everybody, which is nice." Shot of crew below eating in the red light. Someone (Tony?): "Nice job. We're back racing again."Drone shots: Distant shot with sunrise; very low-altitude shot overtaking boat from the starboard quarter. Shots on board of slatting sails, instruments with low-wind/low-speed readings. At night, Joan and Xabi talking in Spanish at nav station about a position report. Then, in the dark, we hear Joan (?) relaying the position report in English to Rob (?), talking about how they're doing vs. Vestas (ahead of them) and the peleton (behind them).Stacey, on deck in drifting conditions at sunset: "I've been looking to see the green flash my entire life. I reckon I saw every sunset in the last race and never once saw the green flash." Tony: "A lot of people think it's mythical, but I can assure you it's real. I've got non-believers laughing at me down the hatch right now." Nick (?) from below: "No, no, no, seriously; I'm sure there'll be a unicorn under that flash." Other voice: "I've seen it." Tony: "Also a member of the Flat Earth Society." Shot of dusk, young moon over calm sea. SiFi, at nav station: "MAPFRE up here to the north. She's going quite well. She's still in an easterly... Have to hope a little bit. Hope we get round in front of them."Horace, below, looking at instruments: "For now 1 knot. We are 1.7." He continues in voiceover as we see several shots of Dongfeng flopping in light winds: "It's a very, very light wind. We are sailing very slow, just a 2 or 3 knot boatspeed. It's quite boring. We got Scallywag, Turn the Tide, but now we are four boats sailing around this last-boats area, and when the wind comes in we want to be the first boat to catch the new pressure."Emily, on the bow as AkzoNobel is slatting in no wind, points forward to where you can see Porto Santo lit by the setting sun. Emily: "Looking at where we are going, you can see the islands we've got to round, in the sunset, silhouetted." She grins and gives two thumbs-up to the camera.Shot of AkzoNobel slatting in no wind. Simeon: "We had a little bit of an accident yesterday with one of the mainsail battens; the top batten." Shot of them lowering the main, removing batten cars from the mast track. We see the crew repairing the broken battan, as Luke talks off-camera: "There's so many pieces that go together to making a mainsail, that you break one bit it's all related to the others. Unfortuantely we broke this top batten, which is the main batten that sets up the whole square top of the sail. So with a couple of days of reaching ahead of us, we thought we'd take this light air moment to repair it. Boys have done a good job, and now we're ready to hoist." Shots of them re-hoisting the main.Crepuscular rays at sunset. Annalise sits in the cockpit as TTToP slats with no wind. Annalise: "Right now we have very little wind. It's pretty glassy. There's a bit of a swell. We're surrounded by quite a bit of cloud, so I'm hoping there's a little bit of wind in them. But I think we've got a long night of slow sailing ahead.Drone shot circling AkzoNobel at sunset in light wind, sailing on starboard under Masthead 0.Crew on the bow as the boat flops in no wind; crew sleeping forward below.Rob at the wheel: "The wind's only going to get lighter from here, the next 24 hours, and we're just trying to find the best way through this light transition. Talks about Vestas. Xabi on the helm. Sophie fiddling with the stack on the bow. Then Sophie sitting on the stack while Blair pops up out of the hatch looking at the camera like a gopher.Jérémie, shirtless, talks on the bow in French as Dongfeng flops in no wind. He switches to English: "It's very obvious we're in no wind, but when you're in it you don't feel comfortable." Talks about strategy and the competition. Shots of them flopping; distant shot of Brunel behind them.Shot of boat flopping in drifting conditions. Mark: "Six hours ago we were sailing in 30 knots. Now it's blowing 3 knots, and we have all the gear in the bow, and we're actually getting all the people up here in the bow as well, so we'll be sleeping up here in the middle of the day. Wishing we had the fans in the bunks." Shots of crew trying to sleep in the heat whle the boat flops, and SiFi jokes about the forecast. Someone (Tony?), off-camera: "Look at that: we just cracked 2 knots. Last night we did 32, and now we're 1.9." (It's either Tony or Tom. Need to work on my Aussie vs. Kiwi accent recognition.)Brunel flops with no wind. TTToP is visible to starboard. Maciel trims, talks to Bouwe on the helm. Both of them are shirtless. Maciel: "No wind." Maciel talks to Martin about how some wind should fill in later from ahead of them. We see a sleeping crewmember's foot, below. Wet clothes hanging from the lifelines and laid out on deck, forward.Annemieke on deck, looking tired. Annemieke: "We didn't have a lot of sleep last night. So everyone is trying really hard to stay fit... It is nice on this team, because sometimes your teammates just say hey, maybe you should catch up some sleep. Better for everyone." Witty: "You want to beat someone in a sport, you want to beat them fairly with fair play. You don't need to go to extremes. That's not what sport's all about, whether it's amateur sport or professional sport... You get brought up by your parents with a set of values, always do the right thing, to be a sportsman, have a sense of fair play, a sense of values, and that's what you do." Night shot of John (?) working the pit, getting a halyard on lock, then crew grinding to furl. Audio continues over daytime drone shots from above Scallywag. Shots of Ben, and then Tom, working on deck.Slowmo glamour shot of Martine in sunglasses on the helm.Liz, in the pit area, talks about sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar: "Pretty hairy last night. We had up to 36, 37 knots of wind gybing through the straits, avoiding traffic... Now the breeze is slowly dying out... Just crawling back into the fleet. We've got good speed on the guys around us, so looking good." Lucas: Talks about lack of sleep and the Gibraltar passage. "It was pretty fun, actually. There was some fast sailing." Dee: "I feel like a new woman. I feel wonderful! I probably don't look wonderful. Two hours in my bunk. Yes! That's my record for this trip so far."Sunset wake, sailing fast. Carlo talks on deck in Dutch about the competition. Bouwe talks in Dutch about the competition. Alberto, on the helm, talks in Italian.Night shots of crew working in the cockpit, washing machine. Someone (Ñeti?) below repairing something. Xabi talks to Ugo the next morning as MAPFRE sails under A3 and staysail. Xabi (in Spanish): talks about the prevoius night's windy conditions in the Strait of Gibraltar, the competition. Shots of crew in the cockpit, moving the stack. Sophie repairing one of the binnacle compasses.Nicolai, below, works on a broken-down winch: "We had a windy night last night, and when you have a bit of breeze it's always hard on the gear. We broke the winch we use to furl the sails, so just fixing that right now. Without the winches we can't pull the sails; we can't adjust anything... These are crucial. We need them all the time... So that's why I'm doing this now, and we'll have it back up in a hopefully couple of minutes, but probably half an hour."Horace, below, talks at length in Mandarin. I've got nothing. Shanghai Sailor? Translation help?Jérémie, below: "I have a special message today. It's the 24th of October, and my son Jack is now 10 years old, so I want to say to you, joyeux anniversaire, happy birthday, and I can't wait to see you in Lisbon."Shot of boat sailing fast on starboard gybe around dawn, with Nick (I think?) on the helm and Hannah (I think) on the mainsheet. SiFi, below at nav station, looks at the latest position update. SiFi talks strategy on the exit from Gibraltar. "Good to see they're behind us and not well down inside us... Hopefully we can stay on this gybe for a while, start getting south, I can get some sleep, and, yeah, start sailing towards the light stuff." Slomo shot of Damian on the bow in spray.Night shot of the young moon over the heads of the crew in the cockpit. Stu, below, talks about the night. It was hectic, it got dark, they entered the Strait of Gibraltar, forecast was for winds over 30 knots especially on the exit. They first reefed with the Masthead 0, then peeled to the Fractional 0. "It's far too early in the race to be risking anything. Nice short sea state; wind against tide. So we've got plenty on at the moment. The wet-weather gear is getting a good working. Just have to survive for the next few hours and the breeze should drop off again." Crew in the cockpit; Pascal at the nav station. Stacking below. Night vision shots of crew in the cockpit gybing reefed main, washing machine, foredeck.Dee, at the nav station at night: Talks about exiting through the Strait of Gibraltar, winds up to 35 knots with lots of gybing. Now they're still in the acceleration zone, but are taking things a bit easier by extending out to where the wind falls a bit before gybing. "Good to have an idea of this before we actually head into the south."Shot of Mark on the bow looking at Gibraltar as they approach it. SiFi talks about how they're coming into Gibraltar, and it's going to get pretty busy. SiFi: "We've got current against, and then the wind is going to build a lot; probably 30-35 knots... It's going to be an exciting few hours, but we've just gotta make sure we get through it in good shape, don't break anything and look after the boat and the people." Shots of the shore, cockpit shot with waves coming over the bow (washing machine), Stacey Jackson on the grinder with setting sun behind her. Slowmo shots of grinding, spray.Night. Talking in the cockpit as they've furled the Fractional 0. Discussion of rudders. A crewmember (Nicolai, maybe?) probes with a boat hook off the stern, then straightens up. Crewmember: "Gone." Other voice: "Gone?" First crewmember: "Gone." Simeon below, at the nav station: "We're here off the African coast, and we hit something pretty hard. Twenty-two, twenty-three knots. Some plastic on the rudder, vibration on the keel. We furled the fractional and did a bit of a back down. Seems to be gone." He shrugs. "No water in the boat. Rudders still in." He gives a "let's go" gesture and smiles.MAPFRE sails on port gybe with Spanish coast visible in the background. This must have been just before or just after Gibraltar. Pablo talks in Spanish. Shots of them sailing close to shore. Sunset. Willy on the bow getting wet while securing the stack. Night shot of the lights of the Spanish coast.Beautiful shot of sunset behind the clouds as they pass Gibraltar. Pascal says he doesn't know how to say it in English, but in French you'd say the clouds are lenticular (which is the same in English). Pascal: "In one hour we are going to catch more wind, perhaps quite a strong wind." He talks about how on the first night they "catch something on the boat", and as a result they have been slow compared to the other boats. "Also we sail very bad... But we are going to fight very hard until the arrival, and finger crossed." More sunset shots; Pascal looking to leeward as the light fades.AkzoNobel sails fast under on port gybe after sunset. Young moon is low ahead of them. I think they're carrying the Fractional 0 and a reefed main. Wake shot.Bianca: "It feels pretty unreal. It's been some pretty awesome sailing so far. We're up with the fleet... just had a port/starboard with Scallywag, managed to pass in front of them on port. We're middle of the fleet, and it feels good. It's great."Ross, with a tablet, navigates in the cockpit. Simeon steers. Ross: "We're setting up for Gibraltar, we're just on the starboard side of the channel in the anchorage where the ships are, literally just east of Gibraltar. And we're gonna gybe and get lined up for the shipping lanes... One of the busiest places in the world for shipping, and we've got to follow all the rules and regulations, and at the same time yacht this thing through as fast as we can. So yeah; it's gonna be a busy 6 to 8 hours." Nicolai takes the helm from Simeon.Shots of crew sleeping, working the grinders. Pascal, below, rubs his eyes. Jack eating. Mood seems somber. Jack talks about them approaching the Strait of Gibralter, where they'll have at least 30 knots of wind and a narrow passage that will require lots of gybing.Drone shots of Scallywag and MAPFRE with low sun behind them.Drone shots of Dongfeng reaching on port tack in light wind with the Masthead 0 (I think?) and J3 as a staysail.Shot of a sail (Masthead 0?) being unfurled after a gybe. Mark, below, explains "Meat-Free Mondays" as something they're doing to reduce carbon impacts and demonstrate their commitment to sustainability. "It is good. In fact it's really good." Later, though: "It's always hot; it's always mushy like this. That part gets annoying, especially when it's hot out." Shot of foredeck. SiFi: "It's easier on shore than it is on a boat."Red-light shots at night: stacking, sails. Joan (in Spanish): talks about rounding Cabo de Gata, wind. Sunrise drone shot, circling MAPFRE. Early morning light shot of Scallywag ahead of them with A3 and J2 flying. Shot of Sophie on MAPFRE on port watching Scallywag pass behind them on starboard and Brunel passing in front of them. (This was the big gybe in toward the Spanish coast where Vestas went before the other boats and took the lead.) Shot of Joan with MAPFRE now on the starboard gybe talking (in Spanish) about strategy. In the background, Xabi and Rob talk strategy (in English), mentioning Akzo, Vestas, and Brunel.António is on the weather rail holding binoculars. António: "Yesterday I had just finished diving the boat - Scallywag - and all of a sudden Simeon ran up to me and asked me if I wanted to do the leg. Of course, that was my goal. I spoke to Witty, and he was happy with it as well. So it was good. Very good opportunity." Nicolai on the helm. António: "When you are a reserve sailor, you need to be always ready to jump on board whenever it's needed. So: that's how I am here."Below, Alex patches the A3. He explains that it got some small holes during the leaving lap. We see him (jersey: "ALEX"), Ben ("NIPPER"), and Annemieke ("BESSIE") patching the sail.Stu: "Clear sky on that side of the cloud." Charles: "But it looks more windy here than here, no?" Someone off camera (Charles? Pascal?): "Starboard is going to be a nightmare." Carolijn: "Painful." Stu (disgusted): "Fuck." Horace moving the stack forward. Carolijn: "The wind's just gone ligher on us... Could be an option to gybe out and split from the fleet. But at the same time the wind's very right at the moment. We've decided we're going to stick with the fleet and see what the pressure's going to do ahead of us." Sounds like maybe Stu was advocating for gybing onto starboard, but Charles overruled. (Per tracker, most of the fleet did end up gybing onto starboard while Dongfeng and Mapfre continued longer on port. Those that gybed earlier did better, leading to Dongfeng entering the Strait of Gibralter in last place.)Shot of MAPFRE behind them; Dongfeng further away. Parko, on the helm: "Definitely seems like people are sailing a different mode, different style, now that the race has actually started. Maybe people were hiding something, with some different sail combinations we hadn't seen before." Wide drone shot of Scallywag with Brunel behind them. Tom (gesturing upward and laughing): "The learning curve is like that."Nightime, approaching lights of the Spanish coast. Charlie talks through the gybe with Mark, then they gybe from starboard to port. Stacking below. Hannah talks with the dawn breaking behind them. Hannah: "It was a pretty nice first night. It was warm. A couple of gybes, nothing too stressful. We're pretty happy with how we've been going, so can't complain right now."Sunrise shot of silhouetted crew (Martine?) on the helm. Simeon at nav station, talking about their strategic moves. "It came out well. We're in second position, behind Vestas. But it's still close racing."Pascal, at nav station, is not happy. "We lost a lot to the fleet, so not really a good choice." Night shots of crew gybing, grinding. Shifting the nav station below, stacking below. Pascal and Charles at the nav station, looking concerned.Nighttime, going to weather. A crewmember shines a flashlight forward, toward a competitor: "They are A3 and J3." Other crewmeber: "Say again?" First crewmember (louder): "They are A3, J3." Other crewmember: "Thanks very much for that."