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(June 25, 2023) – While its Day 11 for the IMOCAs and VO65s that are racing in the final leg of The Ocean Race 2023, overall leader 11th Hour Racing Team is on their eighth day delivering their boat from The Netherlands to Genova, Italy. A collision 17 minutes into Leg 7 required their retirement and a return for repairs, but they now seek to finish what they started. Here’s an onboard update:
Happy to report we are comfortably inside the Mediterranean Sea, just over six months since we left. A lot has transpired since then, obviously, with a circumnavigation already complete; Aarhus is both north and east of Alicante.
To say this has been a strange eight days is a bit of an understatement. It feels a little like the twilight zone onboard, where we are caught between universes!
In one, we are racing hard. The goal is to get there as fast as possible for a multitude of reasons. That provides more time to celebrate the end of the race with the rest of the race. More time to prepare for the In Port Race. More time to be together as a team before going our separate ways on July 2nd.
In the other universe, it’s not the worst of ways to spend our last offshore miles together as a group onboard, the same group that started this race in Alicante this January. We have nobody to race against so there is a lack of pressure. The mood is light, casual. Plenty of time to enjoy each others company and have some laughs…
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