![]() Guyot Environnement – Team Europe had to abandon leg three completely after suffering a “hull sandwich failure”, spending three nervous days sailing 600 nautical miles back to Cape Town for repairs. On March 1, the Team Malizia crew discovered a crack at the top of the mast, requiring one of them to climb up 28 meters in rough seas to patch it over in the middle of the night. Winds in the Southern Ocean can reach up to 70 knots and hitting an iceberg at speed would be catastrophic, so the boats have to steer clear of an ice exclusion zone around Antarctica. The crews survive on freeze-dried food (rehydrated with hot water from a kettle, there’s no kitchen), and operate a four-hour alternating watch system. Boat speeds on leg three so far have been up to 40.5 knots, the equivalent of gale force winds, and the vessels have, subject to ratification, broken the 24-hour distance record multiple times. And this is just leg three, the longest portion of the even longer Ocean Race, a 32,000-nautical-mile dash around the world that started in January and finishes in July.Ĭompetition is fierce and racing is close, even after three weeks at sea. The nearest humans are generally those in the International Space Station when it passes overhead.īut, four sailing teams came through that part of the world, part of the marathon race round the bottom of the Earth, from Cape Town in South Africa to Itajaí in Brazil.īy the time these 18-metre (60ft) Imoca monohull sailing yachts neared Point Nemo, the five sailors on each boat had already been at sea for 23 days, with another two weeks to go before they reach port in early April. Point Nemo, just to the north in the South Pacific, is the farthest location from land on Earth, 1,670 miles (2,688km) away from the closest shore. Circling the icy continent of Antarctica, it is the planet’s wildest and most remote ocean. The Southern Ocean is not somewhere most people choose to spend an hour, let alone a month. Having never heard of it, he took a look inside and the bagels seemed up to par…little did we know he was in for a treat.After a long hiatus, The Ocean Race is back, but this year, as reported by Yvonne Gordon of the Guardian, while dodging icebergs, cracking masts and suffering the occasional ‘hull sandwich failure’, the teams are gathering crucial data from places even research vessels rarely reach. Walking around Williamsburg we came across The Bagel Store. Adam was craving a bagel …no saltie sandwich for him. Now, I wasn’t the only one to experience the “best thing eaten” experience that day. So you see.this really is the best sandwich I’ve ever had! All the “saltie” flavors work so well together and that bread….oh that bread is something special. Sitting in between the chewy foccacia bread with a crusty salty top and chewy center are boiled eggs, feta, arugula, olives, capers, pickled vegetables, tangy pickles, and a homemade garlic aoili. When you hear the combination of ingredients you might think…”how on earth did they think of this combination and will this actually taste good all together?” The answer: they are geniuses and yes, it does taste very good together. ![]() But I was here for the scuttlebutt sandwich. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is made in house…from the huge slices of foccacia bread, to the fluffy naan, and all the pastries, doughnuts, and cookies. This tiny shops serves sandwiches with very interesting names that do not tell you in the slightest what may be hiding in between the two delicious slices of homemade bread: The captain’s daughter, the clean slate, the ship’s biscuit, and the balmy are just a few of the offerings. ![]() But for “the best” sandwich you MUST go to Saltie in Williamsburg. There may have been good sandwiches, very tasty sandwiches, and possibly even excellent and delicious sandwiches. I take back any other “best sandwiches” in my past. So friends, before you all roll your eyes in a “here we go again” fashion, I do need to tell you about the actual best sandwich I’ve ever eaten. Enjoying a "Best Thing I Ever Ate" sandwich ![]()
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