" A Lady trip" the A.R.C. Las Palmas to St Lucia Avoiding the recession in style
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 6 Dec 2009 10:23
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DAY 13
Saturday 5th December 2009
00.00A good steady E breeze, 18 / 20 knots and we
are averaging 8knots
02.00 Almost a full moon lighting up the sky
and all is well,that is except for the flying fish that flew into the cockpit,
however as we saw him land,
we put him back to the sea, he was one of the lucky
ones
004.00 Checked the Oyster / Mastervolt theory on
the generator
06.00 The skipper, Dermot and Mark were up
and about, Mark was in the middle of making tea when the boat was lifted
clean up and sideways
on a huge
wave, poor Mark went flying across the saloon and hit the chart table, severly
bruising his foot.
After a few
hours of frozen prawns on his foot, plus the appropriate amount of drugs, he
began to feel human again.
08.00 The GUY snapped again in 26 knots of
wind.DAMN Damn,
The MIGHTY crew took down the KITE in double quick time and we decided to goose
wing for a while,
( the boat rolls \much more sailing in this
fashion ).
08.30 We decided to gybe as we were going too far
south, BANG the shackle holding the main sheet block to the boom exploded
and the boom shot out and whammed into the shrouds, Ohhhhh GOD
surely the boom is burst ! Phew , no its not , not even
damaged, we were lucky ......
09.00 Wind now at 28 knots
12.00 Skipper landed a lovely Tuna ( approx 8
lbs ) while MARK , the injured fisherman was crashed out in the
bunk.
14.00 Wind had eased off by now so we put up
the KITE again and off we went on a STB pole.
18.00 Wind now back to a steady 20 knots, Just
bleedin lovely, so out come the " CORK DRY GIN " and of course Sweepes
tonic's
to
celebrate our good progress, however we did slip milage against the fleet over
the last 24 hours.
WE then sighted another competitor, The russions in their 62 foot yacht,
spoke to them on V.H.F,
20.00 Dermot cooked the freshly caught TUNA
for dinner,, plus a few wines,, YUM, YUM
22.00 we watched more RUGBY on the T.V. and
comisorrated the MUNSTER loss against Osprey's ..
24.00 We are sailing along nicely at 8 /9
knots girectly towards our waypoint between Martinique and St.Lucia
DAY 14
Sunday 6th December 2009
06.oo We had a great steady 20 / 23 knot breeze all
night,
Almost full moon and gazillions of stars , Better than at home, where the
weather is still miserable.
A
Ship passed going south,
06.30 We made contact with AKARANA again and
were delighted with our selves, we definatly took 20 miles out of them,,
WE ARE
NOW ONLY 182 N MILES to the finish
Talk to you later
Stephen Hyde
Skipper.
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