Working Hard To Get Back In The Race

It might be hard to believe, given the scale of disappointment felt yesterday but these images were taken just an hour after the team docked back into The Hague.
"The team is okay. It's been a tough afternoon but the most important thing is that everyone's okay," says Team CEO Mark Towill. "In my opinion, we've got one of the best tech teams in the world, so they're diagnosing exactly where we're at so we can make a plan."
When the going gets tough......

1833 local time -- COLLISION between GUYOT envrionnement and 11th Hour Racing Team... all crew look to be ok but there is damage to both boats.







1824 local time -- A passing move by GUYOT environnement - Team Europe, slipping inside on Team Malizia to grab third place on the short second leg...

1850 local time -- Both 11th Hour Racing Team and GUYOT will return to harbour... Meanwhile, Team Holcim-PRB, Team Malizia...

Team We Brake For Whales arrived this morning around 7am, for a time of 5 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes and an undisclosed number of baked goods.

Congratulations, Team We Brake For Whales!





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GUYOT environnement-Team Europe lead the way in fast and furious foiling conditions
A fantastic first win for the popular IMOCA team at the In Port Race in The Hague




The Hague served up some of the best racing conditions the IMOCA fleet has seen in this edition of The Ocean Race on Tuesday afternoon. Bright sunshine and strong winds approaching 20 knots made for fast and furious foiling for the In-Port Race.

Benjamin Dutreux’s GUYOT environnement...

June 13, 2023


Race to Alaska just closed out its fifth day since Victoria and here in the command bunker, we’re getting ready. We’re digging out the boxes of decorations, counting out the $10,000 prize money, finding the right piece of firewood, and sharpening some steak knives. Ketchikan is getting ready too. The newspaper is taking their typewriters in for an oil change. TV and radio hosts are already polishing their lenses and “Red Leather, Yellow Leather-ing”...

STAGE 2, DAY 5: IAN FARRIER OWES US MONEY

June 12, 2023
(We think today’s update is best read if you imagine us in a smoking jacket, pipe in hand. A cross between R2AK-fueled masterpiece theater whatever and whatever this was. That established, read on..)

Here’s a debate we just started with ourselves: Team We Brake for Whales’ current program of a walk away, outperform and outlast, cookie-infused, victory-in-the-making is either the most R2AK victory...

The result was in doubt until the final moments of leg 6, with 11th Hour Racing Team along with Team Holcim-PRB and Team Malizia racing within shouting distance of each other during most of Sunday morning.

The final approach to The Hague required one short upwind section where the boats were crisscrossing within metres with each tack, but skipper Charlie Enright's 11th Hour Racing Team held their nerve and made the final turn south with a small lead they would manage...

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Coast Guard and Monterey Fire Department responded to a report of a possible fire on board the 50-foot whale watching vessel Pacifica with 43 people aboard off Point Pinos, Sunday.

A Station Monterey 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew put the disabled Pacifica in tow and brought it back to Monterey. There are no reports of injury.

The cause of the incident is under investigation.





At approximately 10 a.m., Coast...

https://r2ak2023.maprogress.com/





all photos : Jim Meyers





Team We Brake For Whales:
Team members: Jeanne Goussev, Evgeniy Goussev, Maisie Bryant, Remy Lang, Andy Kleitsch, Lindsey Lind, John Guillote, Nikki Henderson
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
Race vessel: Custom Lyman Morse 40
LOA: 40′
Human propulsion: Pedal (prop)



Tres Equis
Team...

Anyone who’s ever gotten married, taken the SATs, or gone to court knows that there is a big difference between the night before and the morning of. The night before there is a sleep buffer between you and the big uncertain. Day of? It’s right there, clock ticking louder and louder until it all of a sudden your whole life changes. Race to Alaska start day has all of the trappings of at least two of those, with a chance of drowning.

The energy on the docks Thursday...