TELEFONICA BLUE EMAIL: 'No Worries'

Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 0324 GMT

Telefónica Blue - Bouwe Bekking (Skipper)

Just to set the record straight after reading some articles, so that the families don't have to worry, we still have a complete menu for 5 days, meaning full breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus a variety of snacks. On top of that we have pasta, extra muesli and some bags of the least favourable warm meals, plus plenty of protein powder, so no worries from our side in case it takes longer.

I think the misunderstanding has come from when our crew starts talking and dreaming about real food, and the craving to eat a big steak and other nice things, but they can stuff themselves here with 5000 calories or more per day, if they like!

Also we have enough fuel, so we can run everything, including the aircon fans. Just remember, all boats have another 135 litres of so-called emergency fuel. If a boat would run out using their normal tanks, it has the option to use the emergency fuel, but it will most likely cost them some sort of a penalty.

Another 24 hours light weather for us and then it looks like a reach into Rio. The routing is still not very clear on an exact arrival, so let's keep it somewhere on the 29th.

Bouwe

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