Hard sailing on Maserati

3000 miles in and a long way ahead of the reference time, Ryan updates us from the deck of the Maserati.
Of course this is the run from New York to San Francisco on the West Coast, trying to beat the record time.


Eight days after their departure, Maserati is flying at speeds of 20 knots towards the equator, driven by the trade winds. A fast descent that shall slow down during the day as Giovanni Soldini and his team enter the equatorial calm area, between 5° and 3°/2° N.

The spirits on board are high, Maserati has already sailed 2750 miles (of the 13,225 separating New York from San Francisco) at an average speed of 14.5 knots.

On board with Soldini Italians Guido Broggi, Corrado Rossignoli and Michele Sighel, French Sébastien Audigane, German Boris Herrmann, American Ryan Breymaier, Chinese Jianghe Teng said Tiger and Spaniard Carlos Hernandez. The crew is now really tight-knit: four people on deck at a time, shifts of four hours each, but staggered so that every two hours two new crew members are on watch.

http://youtu.be/eDg2fPEEzO4