Joe Harris: Entering the no mistake zone

American Joe Harris along with Roger Junet are competing in the Globe40, an eight-leg doublehanded round the world race in Class40s. Seven teams were at the beginning on June 26, with five teams now on the fifth leg from Papeete, Tahiti to Ushuaia, Argentina.

After starting on November 26, Harris files this report from onboard GryphonSolo2 on December 11, 2022:

We are now just 1,400 miles from the infamous Cape Horn, and we just had a tough day. At 0600, I wake to a cold and increasing wind and sea state and quickly go to the computer to review the forecast for the day, which is for winds in the 20s gusting to 30. However, we are already seeing high 20s windspeed and it looks to be increasing.

We have too much sail up…

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