The drag race is on. I hope and pray that the wind holds out. We have all kinds of conflicting weather data, but reality is that there is a 16 knot westerly pushing us toward the finish and we are very happy it is here.

Today (really there is no night so I guess today is all day) has been a bit of a mix up. Early this morning we were jibing around the southern tip of Sweden and we got ourselves a bit close to shore and the Ericsson twins made a gain on us. In fact, E4 passed us there. We got offshore about a half mile behind E4 and a mile ahead of E3. The wind picked up a bit into the mid twenties and E4 started to show her stuff. We hung on and have been within a mile all day.

Then the wind completely and fairly unexpectedly crapped on both of us. Reaching along at 15 knots and bang, on the wind in five knots. Where did that come from? E3 watched the whole thing from a couple miles behind and literally sailed around us both. This is not a good trend for il mostro

But, in the weirdness, we got some leverage to the west of the Ericsson boys and the wind filled back in from the old direction and we just got around the bow of both of them reaching to the finish. Very exciting and all on right now. These two boats aren’t slow so we have our hands full. Hopefully just let the old girl hunt a bit and all will be well.

Sorry, this is all I have time for. There is plenty happening on deck. Later

- Kenny