" A Lady " A.R.C.crossing and avoiding the recession & rain in style
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 25 Nov 2009 14:22
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WEDNESDAY 25 th November 2009Today at 13.00
hrs we had completed 566nm and were scooting along nicely in 25 /27 knts of
breeze.
After we finished the great steak meal, we looked
over Arnauds photo's again and then started the night shift's ( watches
)
Jenny and myself saw a large no of Dolphin's
playing around the bow at 01.30 hrs.
We were really clipping along under " KITE "
and in the right direction, sea conditions were moderate andf the water was a
terrific purple/blue,
It was also much warmer than the previous night, so
the skipper spent most of the night on deck, sometimes under a blanket and
catching a few cat naps.
Later in the night, actually just as dawn began to
brreak,there was a loud bang, " cr888xx ! what the ! oh oh the port guy had
snapped off at the
spinniker pole, Again , for the second time this
week, everyone was summened up on deck and the kite taken down without
incedent.
We kept the boat sailing under white sails only,
but as the wind was now at 30 knots, we were almost doing the same speed as with
the KITE
09.00 hrs we all got into the emails and after
breckfast, we took turns in catching up with the sleep.
Mark did a fantastic job on reparing the
damaged "guy " He even used leather and sewed it onto the snap shackle to
prevent the same thing happening again. ( ie, there was so much pressure on the
KITE ,that the snap shackle chaffed through the " guy " ( rope )
Now, Mark is a farmer and obviously trained to
repaire anything with nothing, and that's just what he did. Imagine, he had
brought the leather from home, a piece of sofa which had come to the end of its
life. well done MARK.
We had a n egg salad sanwich for lunch, prepared by
Jenny, yum yum ....... this was followed by the blog
Bye for now.
Stephen Hyde
Skipper
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