Volvo Ocean Race – Half the crew have been sea sick

by Brian Carlin on 10 Jun 2015 Volvo Ocean Race – It's a sh*t show. This blog is going to be short and sweet!

Two things didn’t happen yesterday:

1. I never saw my four hours sleep (in fact I haven’t slept more than 20mins since I last wrote a blog)
2. The routine was short lived.

I’ve spent the majority of my day aft, bailing water from an unknown leak. It’s been heinous. I’ve banged my head so many times I think I’ve got brain damage. I’m wet from head to toe when all along I was thinking that this was going to be a short leg with no change of clothes. Why the f... am I doing this job?

Everyone is feeling it, at least half the crew have been sea sick. I’ve escaped it for now, but that doesn’t mean it won’t come. I’ve got a headache that won’t leave and Simeon just lost my chilli bin over the back of the boat so there's no dinner for those who wanted it (not many, I’d say).

I’ve actually almost stopped caring about the job of providing media - I’m here just to survive the next 24hrs.

It's been a solid 30 plus gusting close to 40 for a day now and the sea state is big - four to five minutes swells. When you're sailing up these waves, it's rather unpleasant, to say the least.

Oh, and just to add to it all, we’ve had a substantial amount of hydraulic oil leak all over the boat so now it's like sailing a bar of soap.

Let's hope the Bay of Certain Death gives us the break we need. Aside from the sh*t show, we push hard and keep the lead we've worked up since Lisbon.

Later land people…