A race report from Team Vodafone Sailing on the Round White Island Race from the teams facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/TeamVodafoneSailing/163615230319915
We left Auckland in a 5-10kt Northerly and wiggled our way to Channel island, in a unforecast norwester with the genaker on for a time. We meet a 20kt noreaster which put us on the wind to White in 12-18kts.
Got round the volcano around 5:30am and pulled the genaker out, VMG running all the way back to channel. We got a bit of breeze now an then (15-20kts) and some good rides up to the top speed for the trip of 32kts.
6 odd hours from White to Channel was not to shabby, but around the corner we had a drift off to look forward to....
We drifted in through the Gulf in a frustrating 0-5kts from every direction to finish at 6:49pm on Saturday .
Not a bad race, but one day we would like to start one of these offshores in some puff.
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