Open 85 “Trading Network Alye Parusa” has sailed over 9.000 n. miles alongside Antarctica Cup Race Track and currently passing 350 miles north of South Georgia Islands.

It’s been a fruitful day for me. In the morning we received our regular weather forecast from Lee Bruce which suggested 20+ knots of steady wind all day. The weather looked cooperative for the rudder repair and there was no precipitation which will allow working with epoxy, so I decided it’s now or it’ll be too late.

Fedor passed first mark on ACRT to avoid iceberg zone: 50 South and 50 West. This waypoint was given to indicate north-western boundaries of iceberg spread in March 2008. From this moment Fedor is monitoring area around the boat as close as it possible for a solo sailor.

Fedor reports that a bolt connecting the starboard rudder to an above deck tiller system, new when he left Albany, failed off Cape Horn which he replaced with a new spare bolt which has in turn failed after only a few days in service. Fedor is improvising a repair but how effective the repair will be remains to be seen. Race control and Fedor's shore team are monitoring the situation closely.

The Falkland Islands are 200 nautical miles astern. Passing through this part of the South Atlantic Ocean gave something new to my daily routine. The boat was surrounded by all sorts of marine life.

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