The weekend has been filled with diesel fumes and motor repairs for Nick Bubb and Tanguy de Lamotte on board Novedia Group/S.E.T. Environnement. Nick and Tanguy are now in 5th place – they are officially listed as 4th, but as Italia Telecom currently is listed as ”position unknown” we suspect that they still are up front.
Word from Tanguy Monday morning:
- A few lines to tell you that it look like we have solved the problem with the engine. We now have full charge and the engine ran “normally” last night.
- One thing Nick did not tell you in the last report were that we had to fix the tack of our big spi. The webbing were damaged so I decided to go out on the pole with my climbing harness to stitch some new webbing on, but as I was starting on the first one the remaining of the last webbing ripped and the kite flew backward behind the main and I was left alone at the end of the pole… we dropped it and put the medium spi up very quickly and I started the repair on deck: 3 new webbings on the sail tack! and 20 minutes later the big spi was up again. It has not come down since.
