Each day as the yachts race in the Global Challenge, teams will file daily logs via satellite to the web site.

These log entries are designed to be more than simple position and status reports; they are the teams’ way of sharing the excitement and drama as it is seen and felt by those aboard.

Via the Global Challenge’s RSS Feed ATWOS will feature selected daily logs.

The boats left Argentina on November 28th headed for New Zealand. Leg 2 will include rounding Cape Horn.

Today’s log is from Barclay’s Adventurer

‘Blood on the Spinnaker’
A Challenge Production
Starring Rab C Nesbitt as Chay Blyth, Robbie Coltrane as Pete Austen and Bette Midler as Dr Emma.

This must-see movie thriller sees a star studded cast act out a drama of intrigue and excitement. Set on a yacht in the barren wilderness of the Southern Ocean, tensions within the crew are running high after 32 days at sea.

Mike Chivers (played by Fred Dibnah) is seen, covered in blood, stumbling away from a body slumped across the chart table. Although the body turns out to be Laurent (Peter Sellers) sleeping while pretending to be navigating, and the blood only the result of an ill-advised attempt to make rehydrated raspberry and blackberry crumble in a force 9 gale, further mysteries soon follow.

A spate of sock and underpant thefts has victim Pete Austen (Robbie Coltrane) exposed and threatening retribution. Hamish (Ricky Gervais) is outraged over a missing piece of lemon meringue pie. A sabotaged zipper has rendered Pete Dowd (Tom Hanks) trapped, helpless, in his dry suit.

While crew struggle to unravel these mysteries, more questions are raised:
Why are the infamous Babochi Twins (Jon Maddocks and Simon Russell, played by James Stewart and Rock Hudson) making loaves resembling house bricks?
Did Trevor (Bill ‘Compo’ Owen) throw the winch handle overboard to deliberately destroy evidence?
Why does Mike Young ( John Cleese) spend so long up the mast? What or who is he hiding from?
What has Sue (Delia Smith) got hidden under the floorboards?
Why does Hamish spend so long in the bilges?
Has the boats’ compass been tampered with (or are we meant to be going this way)??

Watch the answers unfold and follow the fortunes of the crew in this unforgetable adventure story.

Opening in Wellington shortly.
Also Starring:
Anne Robinson as Mel Schofield, Barbara Windsor as Jane Topham, Errol Flynn as Jon Waeeland, Jim Carey as James Morbey, Judi Dench as Lesley.

Special guests: Kate Winslet as Cathy, Sean Connery and Lulu as Skipper’s Mum and Dad.

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