“Like a clock with its many moving parts all working together to bring you precision time, a good race crew performs in the same way. I come on deck to do a job. It may not be the same job as Thierry our navigator or Paul our Skipper, like the cogs in a clock we all have our own role and specialty,” explains Mohsin Al Busaidi on board Majan. Less than 3,200 miles remain to be covered before reaching the third cape of the Indian Ocean 5 Capes Race, Cape Leeuwin, in Australia, and the crew is not running out of surprises. Yesterday, Mohsin said: “Today is the first day the Southern Ocean has looked like it did the last time I was here. The waves are long and rise up as if someone has shaken a blanket out, sending huge folds of sea tumbling over itself. Our routing may take us back north east as our next challenge is to weave through two strong fronts; one to the north and one to the south. Our best option is to back the northerly route. I like the sound of that as Mohammed and I are feeling the cold and we are still above 40 deg south. We should get a good day in today - as I send this there is a 33 in the boat speed box on the instruments.”

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