At 14:00 hrs we blasted off in the Jules Verne Around the world race sailing virtual 115 foot mutihulls. Leaving from France we cross the Bay of Biscay and turn South bound for the first port of call Cape town, South Africa. This is also where our boats from the clipper are heading at the moment. The multi- hulls are very fast and could very well arrive in Capetown very close to our other boats. In the clipper race at the moment we are south of the Tropic of Capricorn and there is a lot of low wind systems slowing things down.

Weather in Yellowknife is starting to cool off and we are around -5, I think, really not bad for the 1st.of November. Snow cover is light and so the lakes will start to make ice as long as the tempertures keep dropping. The ice we have a present is a combination of ice and frozen overflow much like frozen slush and is not as strong as solid blue ice which is the best. Should we get a few inchs of snow the ski trails will have enough cover to make skiing possible.