" A Lady Trip" the A.R.C. Las Palmas to St Lucia Avoiding the recession in style
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sat 5 Dec 2009 12:27
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DAY 12
FRIDAY 4th December 2009
MILES TO FINISH
560
MILES TRAVELLED 2210
00.00 Still sailing along nicely, going
further south than intended, but did so to keep the boat speed up,
03.00 A coaster passed us travelling in the
opposite direction
A flying fish
flew in the hatch and landed on the saloon floor, poor guy, dident make it back
to the sea.
06.00 We overtook two sailing boats , Frence we
suspect ,and not in the A.R.C.
07.00 we checked out the weather for the day and,
Dermot hosed down the deck, while skipper typed the blog.
11.00 The crew decided to make bread in the
microwave, what a laugh, I would think ther will not be another attempt on this
gourmet bread making.
12.oo Good progress, Finish
now, 508 miles
12.30 Mark caught a HUGE fish , but yet again the
wire trace snapped and off went the fish ,waving at us.
12.35 Mark caught a derado, a good sized fish ,
which was fillited straight away and onto the pan for lunch.
19.00 hrs , Mark was on fire
today, now he has caught a GARE fish, 1.5m long and looked like a big
eel.
19.30 We decided to take down the KITE and
check the halyard and guy. good job, we repaired the halyard felt the guy would
survive another 24hrs,
what a
mistake, anyway we put up the Kite again off we went, and we had a lamb
dinner , prepared and cooked by John
23.00 Another ship passed on route to Baltimore ,
Maryland, U.S.A.
23.30 The port guy carried away and the
mighty crew were up in a shot and effected the necessary repairs,
With the wind
blowing at over 25 knots and carrying between 2500 sq,feet and 3500 sq feet of
sail, then there has to be casulties
and ware and tare. Lucky so far, its only
ropes.
We checked our positions against all the other
Oyster's and yachts in our class, and without exception , we made ground on them
all,
Till tomorrow.
Stephen Hyde
Skipper
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