OBR | Amory Ross |
description | Opens with a shot of the boat moving, yay! Shot of the keel. Mark talks about their "totally crazy" night last night. Splits in the fleet, reconvergence. Shots at night of Dongfeng super closer to them. Dongfeng's running lights, sail tapes, silhouetted by a lightning flash. Crew in the cockpit working in red light, illuminated by lightning. Best thing, he says, is they came out ahead, and now they're moving at 12 knots. Looking forward to the NE tradewinds. Stacey talks about how they got showers in the rain last night, and now it's super hot again. In the midst of it, Tony, on the helm, asks her to traveller down; she does it as she continues talking. Interesting that they're trimming the main via traveller from the starboard forward cockpit winch; mainsheet appears to be cleated off. Then we see Nick trimming the headsail; Tony on the helm says, "Stand by for puff. 3, 2, 1, [something]." Nick eases the sheet. "Good puff." (Or maybe "Good pop"? Not sure.) Below, at the nav station, SiFi says they're at 3 degrees south. Slowly making their way through the doldrums. Now in a much more stable breeze of 6-8 knots. Probably another 24 hours of slow going; another night of looking out for clouds. "Wanna make sure we're on our toes." They came out on the good side of it last night, but want to make sure they don't do the opposite tonight. In the cockpit at sunset SiFi gives an update. Phil comes through the hatch, shirtless to show his tattoos, including a full left-arm sleeve and some writing I can't make out on his left side. "News is not good." [Joking? Then he continues to the stern to use the head, I'm assuming.] Mark: "We've got one more night." Phil sings, "One more night!... What song is that?" Martin (I think?) answers: "Phil Collins." |
duration | 00:03:57 |
leg | Leg 4 |
link | http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/raw/5490.html |
people | Mark Towill, Nick Dana, Phil Harmer, Simon Fisher, Stacey Jackson and Tony Mutter |
published | Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:02:13 UTC |
seconds | 237 |
tags | Discussing the competition, Doldrums, Good Pop, Good Puff, Keel, Lightning, Night, OBR, One More Night, Other Boat, Phil Collins, Puff, Rain, Shower, Strategy, Tattoo, Traveller and Trimming |
team | Vestas 11th Hour Racing |
video url | https://volvooceanrace-2017-18.s3.amazonaws.com/videos/cropped/m111129_13-04-180111-veh-amr-00001_HD.mp4 |