Obsessive Geronimo Check-In–Day 3: The sailing tracks diverge….Geronimo is in lighter winds and sailing a more direct route to the Bahamas. On PlayStation, we had to take a southerly route to stay in the fresh breezes. Our boatspeed rarely dropped below 18 knots as a result. According to my calculations, after 3 days Geronimo is about 173 miles further from the finish in San Salvador than PlayStation at the same point in our voyage. That’s about 10 hours of sailing in these speed machines. Not bad….but not much of a cushion either. There’s a complicated weather picture ahead, so it’s going to get interesting…..(Mid-day update: Geronimo just checked in, reporting light winds and a 24-hour period of “calm” ahead. That will be torture, if true. I might start feeling sorry for these guys….)

“Bonjour, Olivier. May your vessel reek with the stench of rotting flying fish….”