ITW / Dee's Birthday (Vidéo)

Dee Caffari (GBR), GAES Centros Auditivos :

“I’ve got presents, which is very exciting. One was hidden in my food bag, and another one appeared this morning from Anna. I haven’t had my birthday treat yet, but it’s coming. Anna’s going to cook ham and eggs. [Opens presents] I have a syrup pudding and a chocolate pudding, yummy. And I’ve got go-faster Southern Ocean knickers!”

“I’ve had some really nice emails and messages from friends that have made me smile. It’s really nice to realize that life continues and everybody’s doing normal things, and it’s quite a nice distraction to hear about something other than sail trim, boat speed and the weather strategies, so it’s a really nice distraction.

“It’s actually a very friendly crowd and we’ve had a few emails and contact with a few of the boats. We were looking ahead and looking at the weather it looks like we’re all going to be hanging out together for a while, so I thought we might have a party and we’re offering on GAES a free bar – it’s all the watermaker water you would like!

“We know that the next 24 hours are going to be pretty tricky and so long as we can keep boat speed moving, looking at the position reports we’re closing that gap with the guys in front that we were losing track of. I think tonight will be the telling time. So far so good today. So hopefully my birthday treat is we’re going to keep moving.

“It was quite a lot of ice for very early on and the additional gate kind of really does illustrate the fact that this is quite a lot. Because this race is so much later than the majority of time we spend in the south, I’ve got a feeling we’re going to see a lot more to come and those ice gates are all going to move north, but it’s better that we’re kept safe. I’ve got plenty of photographs of ice flows, I don’t need to see any more!”

From : Barcelona World Race