From full-on racing mode, the team switched to maintaining a slow but steady pace, heading west-southwest as they waited for the wind to pick up again, first from the west and then from the northwest. Under clear skies and rising temperatures, the sea became calmer and the crew was able to prepare for the next front expected on Monday. The gybes of the last few hours will give way to a series of tacks, a change that will demand even more focus during watch shifts and even closer coordination between those manoeuvring, those monitoring the data and those managing the boat's balance in transition.
Every course decision, every sail adjustment, every repeated gesture speaks to the same goal: finding the perfect pressure to resume the descent southwards, heading for the Canary Islands and beyond. A balancing act between caution and ambition, the same tension that defines all great ocean challenges.
This endeavour is not just about speed, but about dealing with obstacles that can vary from hour to hour. The trimaran races when it can and resists when it must. And the women sailing aboard do the same. This is where SLAM is at its strongest as a key partner: being there by their side, with equipment designed for real conditions, where the cold and heat are real, the wind is sharp or absent entirely, and decisions must be made moment to moment.
In these first miles of the round-the-world race, The Famous Project CIC is demonstrating just what makes this adventure so special: determination, expertise, clarity in reading the weather and mutual trust. The route to set the record has just begun. The ocean has taught its first lesson and the team has responded with the calm and resilience of great sailors.
The wind will soon pick up, and their speed with it. The challenge lives on, as powerful and as unpredictable as ever.
SLAM is there with them, increasingly involved in the story they are writing across the waves, a story that has something of the thrill of an adventure but which has been prepared with meticulous professional planning by the whole team.
