Hardly Any Wind, But Supplies Are Scarce

Hardly Any Wind, But Supplies Are Scarce
Hardly Any Wind, But Supplies Are Scarce

Video: Hardly Any Wind, But Supplies Are Scarce

Video: Hardly Any Wind, But Supplies Are Scarce
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After exactly 40 days and 40 nights at sea, the Swedish ship "Ericsson 3" is expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow afternoon (March 26th). Until then, the topic of conversation on board all other ships is: food.

Shortly before the goal it runs out again, almost all supplies are destroyed. Except for those on board "TelefonicBlue", whose crew surprisingly found unbelievable quantities on board, while on board the other ships there is already food envy. "It's like a bear after hibernation", compares the skipper of the "TelefonicBlue", Bouwe Bekking, with the feeling of coming back to the sunny and slack Atlantic after the cold and gray Southern Ocean, from the cabin, her "cave "to crawl and grapple with the rest of the abundant supplies.

On the other hand, it looks bitter on board the other ships. Jules Salter, navigator of the "Ericsson 4", can understand the comparison with the bear, but also with regard to the cabin, which resembles its stinky cage: "The buzzing gets worse every day. The boys search every corner for something to eat and scratch the last Leftovers from the food sacks."

Rick Deppe, media crew member aboard the Puma, describes: "Today there was a lot of discussion on deck about everyone's favorite food. We decided that if we could just fly in one meal by helicopter, it would be grilled chicken with potato salad With bread rolls with fresh butter, brownies with vanilla ice cream for dessert - and everything washed down with rum and cola."

About the remaining supplies, he says: "We are slowly getting to the dregs of our provisions, which we never thought we would need. We only packed them as an emergency - which we are now in."

Everything gets tighter on "Green Dragon" too. "Except for the toilet paper, anyway," as skipper Ian Walker reports. You have over 500 miles to go and often barely more than a knot in the slack winds. To do this, they have to struggle with unpredictable countercurrents off the South American coast: "In a race a few years ago we stood there, had four knots of power from the front, while the others, a few miles further out, could practically sail around us."

On the Volvo Ocean Race website more and more comments are currently gathering that the boats should start fishing collectively: "With such a large ocean under the keel, the food problem should soon be over."

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