Looking Forward to the Horn
Leg 5 Day 12 blog from Amory onboard PUMA’s Mar Mostro:
I don’t care how far it is to Itajaí. I really don’t, and I know I’m not alone; we’ll get there when we get there. We have been looking ahead to Cape Horn since the instant we left Auckland, bashing our brains out during the dive into the Southern Ocean chaos. As my friends at home would say, it was an absolute pillow fight, and we took one hell of a beating down there.
In the midst of all that abuse, the Cape and it’s promised relief have always seemed the logical goal, the obvious destination. And now that we’re just a short ways away – around 200 miles – the final 2,000 miles of Leg 5 sailing are being analyzed, of course. But the honest truth: to this team, to these 11 guys, just getting here is a huge relief and an accomplishment worthy of a solid pat on the back. We’ll happily accept a warranted ‘”job well done,” even before we cross any finish line.
Continue reading on PUMA.com/sailing.
This update made me tear up a lil bit.
