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 27/04/2008  Alye Parusa on the N-E heading towards the Exit markFedor Konyukhov reported via Sat phone: “I am talking to you, standing on deck via Iridium hand-held phone. The stationary phone is out of order; the troubleshooting procedure showed that there is a problem with antenna. It looks antenna had enough of stress and gave up. The portable sat phone is from the Survival grab bag, the line is clear, but the only disadvantage – I have to go on deck, as there is no coverage inside the nav station.
25/04/2008 90 days at sea The north wind extends for more than 1800nm, from 30S to 58S! So there was no option to escape it--only to try to limit its effect.
24/04/2008 Shore team is leaving Moscow for AlbanyFedor reported that boat is battling hard to make progress east. He had all possible sorts of uncooperative weather from N –E-S and back to N. Right now the wind is screaming at 40-45 knots from North, pushing the boat south-east.
22/04/2008 Open 85 Alye Parusa is fighting her way to the finish in complicated headwinds conditionsStrong headwinds not allow to us to progress towards the finish at all. Both boat and I hate this kind of situation. Worse progresses from the start – 36 n.miles in 24 hours.
20/04/2008 2000 miles to finish.Maxi yacht “Trading Network Alye Parusa” rounded Kerguelen Archipelago and less then 2.000 n/miles separates it from
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