I’ve been terribly negligent about reporting on all of the amazing ocean racing that has been underway over the past few weeks, but I just had to write a post to get people to send positive vibes to Derek Hatfield and Spirit of Canada who is currently racing in the Ecover Transat B to B.

Pattianne reports this morning that Derek has been having some serious problems with the on-board computers, sat-comms and autopilot. I can tell you from experience that when “Auto” craps out on you it is super exhausting just trying to do sail changes and trimming, let alone trying to solve computer problems. My experience on the mini pales in comparison to an Open 60. I can’t even imagine what it would be like try to manage one of these powerful beasts without a pilot.

To make matters worse, he had an accidental jibe that caused some damage and wrecked further havoc with the computers.

So please take a minute to send some positive vibes to Derek, he’s got a lot of miles to go.

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