From when we tacked at the Azores we knew that the conditions were going to be very tough and we'd be entering low pressure until gybing to get here. | Desde que viramos Azores sabíamos que las condiciones iban a ser muy duras, era meterse dentro de la baja presión hasta trasluchar hasta llegar aquí. |
We tacked and crossed the fleet between the leaders and the losers and we got the shift. | Viramos y cruzamos la flota entre los líderes y los más rezagados para llegar a ese role. |
We tacked on to port tack to avoid the worst of the waves, but then water started coming into the boat. | Viramos a babor para evitar las peores olas, pero el agua comenzó a entrar tan rápido que no podíamos achicarla. |
At that point we were heading towards Tasmania but we tacked back and went south again, and it came in. | En ese momento nos dirigíamos hacia Tasmania, pero volvimos a virar y entramos en el role. |
We just took a simple sailing boat and we tried to pull something long and heavy, but as we tacked back and forth, what we lost was two things: we were losing pulling power and direction. | Tomamos un barco de vela sencillo y tratamos de sacar algo largo y pesado, pero en el vaivén en que íbamos, perdimos dos cosas: capacidad de tracción y dirección. |
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