Peter Isler aboard Houla filed this onboard report on March 12th at 1500 with Scuttlebutt:
Greetings from the Santa Cruz 70 Holua! It’s been a light, slow, foggy race so far. We’ve only done 100nm since the start (the race ticks in at over 800 nm) and are 25 hours into the race. The scratch boat in the fleet – Rio100 has already pulled the plug and turned around – motoring past us this morning.
With a full moon – migrating whales and a green coastal plain thanks to recent rains – we were hoping for some good visuals but it’s been pea soup (under 100 meters vis) fog until mid-evening last night when it thinned out a just bit – so we really have not seen any competitors since just after the start until just 15 mins ago – when the Andrews 63 Medicine Man and Santa Cruz 70 Catapult appeared out of the haze offshore of us. (continues…)
