Still doesn't make me comfortable, Howard!
I'm not for a moment suggesting they shouldn't do it - I just don't know how they can. Driving the sailing equivalent of a high performance car flat out 24 hours a day for weeks on end is difficult to comprehend.
15 minutes sleep spells interrupted by alarms - if they can sleep at all given the noise and discomfort as the boats crash off waves - is hardly refreshing, and there are a million things to do when awake to keep the boats sailing.
On the Northabout blog coming back across the North Atlantic at one time I described trying to sleep in the forecabin as like lying in a container which was being kicked around by a pack of JCBs.
Not conducive to good quality sleep!
Still very close racing at the front, and Josse in third is now closing the gap.
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