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Wednesday 18 March 2009 0758 GMT

Green Dragon – Ian Walker (Skipper)

It is sad not to have seen Cape Horn. Not only was it the middle of a pitch black night but we were 20 miles away at the closest point. I guess that means I’ll have to come back with my camera another time.

It was over 30 knots and quite big waves, so we gave the Horn a very wide berth. We dropped the spinnaker for a couple of hours to ride out the worst of it. We are going to celebrate with a special bottle given to us by Wallenius Willemsen at first light – I’m not sure what the bottle is yet but I hope it is strong. We should be in the Straits of Le Maire at the time.

It feels great to be back in the Atlantic and heading North again. Everyone on Ericsson 3 have done a fantastic job and I emailed Magnus to tell him as much. They haven’t beaten us to Rio yet though!

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