Osaka Cup. Onboard update from Cadibarra 8  Co-Skippers Paul Roberts and Martin Vaughan, Thursday 18 April, 2013. A consistent story as the light patch mother nature served up, engulfs another yacht:
"Flop, flop wallow wallow.
Flop, flop goes the sails as we sit becalmed. Its been almost 24hrs of this incredibly frustrating nothingness. Everything we try comes to nothing, the best option appears to be code 0 and try to point to where we want to go. 

Its important to keep motivated but when you are barely making 2 knots on average its really hard. Our opposition appear to be handling the conditions better or by fate are experiencing slightly more favorable conditions as we noticed from the last sched Wasabi have blitzed us being almost 60Nm in front and we lost time to both Spirit and Optimus Prime. 

Need to keep motivated, need to keep pushing ourselves. Its hard when you are so tired though."