Transpac 2011: An untimely email

Sometime in the middle of the night my Inbox was happy to receive a
new email communication from the Peligrosos. The good news is they
have not gone crazy and they still remember us... The bad news is
that's not gone help for the movie script...

This new email has a lot of technical info in marine/sailor language
(quoting Rocio) and unfortunately I do not have the dictionary with
me. Therefore, instead of trying to explain, I am just going to share
some of the highlights of the email and you make of it what you can...

"This morning we got the gift of a really nice squall to sail with.
With tropical squalls come wind and if played right can give you an
extra 10kts of wind speed. The wind is all in front of the squall and
the tricky part is that behind the squall there is very little wind.
If the squall overtakes you or you sail through the back of one you
could possibly be stuck in very light wind for hours. Today we were
able to play the squall very well. We went from the normal 14kts of
wind to 26kts! We did 6 gybes to stay in front of the squall and we
managed to sail in that increased breeze for 2 and a half hours!!!
That was a gain of over 10 miles which we hope will help us in the
standings."

"Of course with the good comes the bad…we got something stuck on the
keel and had to back down twice today. Very slow but we're getting
better at it and it takes far less time now."

"As of now we have gybed onto port gybe towards Hawaii. We're one of
the farthest right boats in the fleet and we're working the angles of
the wind to take us all the way into Honolulu. We're just starting to
see the angle that we have
been waiting for and we're ripping along at 15+kts straight toward the
finish!"

"The breeze is only due to increase. Hawaii here we come!"

Here's the techiest part of the email... Let me know if you understand
it because I can't:
"the food onboard…It's fantastic! Usually the food on race boats is
terrible because it is freeze-dried food to save weight. Onboard
Peligroso we eat VERY well. Tonight we had fajitas which were great
and the hot chocolate in the morning is always nice to wake up with.
Life is good onboard Peligroso"