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 10/03/2008  400 miles to Cape Horn.Open 85 yacht “Trading Network Alye Parusa” is on the final stretch to
09/03/2008 ‘Groundhog Day’ When I’m going through my log book it looks like we’re lost in time with the same cold, rain, grey sky, and pale ocean. Even the latitude position of the boat stays the same; 56 South for weeks now. Every day looks the same and brings similar conditions. Whatever I do every morning we’re still in the Southern Ocean at 56 South. The boat is on starboard tack, it’s cold and wet, – its ‘Groundhog Day’!
07/03/2008 Giant iceberg breaks up to spawn hundreds more bergs across Antarctica Cup Racetrack. The giant iceberg A53a sitting in the middle of the Antarctica Cup Racetrack has split in two, compounding the problems for Fedor Konyukhov.
06/03/2008 A massive Iceberg is blocking the way for Fedor.  Antarctica Cup Management are being provided iceberg tracking services by Canadian company C-CORE in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA). Satellite images provided on 5th March have located a massive iceberg around 70 nautical miles to the east of
06/03/2008 Report from C-Core representative on massive iceberg in the middle of Antarctica Cup Race Track. There are a lot of icebergs in this image more than I have ever seen before. There is a massive berg (~42kmx12km) located at (53.84S, 34.65W) that may be the source of thousands of other smaller icebergs that are listed in the results. The iceberg field spans hundreds of miles and avoiding individual icebergs as he has done in the past will be very dangerous.
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