Sailing around the World ( presently in Durban )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 17 Nov 2010 06:55
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TUESDAY 16th
NOVEMBER 2010
07.00hrs A slow start to the day,
Aileen had the washing machine going from the
start, while skipper had breakfast and did the blog and
emails.
It was a calm morning and the sun was shining
, so it was a warm day .
Aileen and Neil went off on a tour of the 1000
hills, about 40 km's away to the north. which later they said was only so,
so,
nothing like what they
expected............
Skipper remained on board with Lolly , while he
sorted out all the lighting in the clocks , plus replacing
the up and down anchor switches at the bow, and a
few other things, He was good at his job,
The rigger tried and failed to re feed our
spinniker halyard into the mast, so he will have to try again tomorrow if the
weather is ok.
The day wore on slowly while all this stuff was
going on. but in the end, thats apart from the halyard, everything on the list
was fixed.
At one stage during the morning, the wind
went from a flat calm to 52 knots in about 10 seconds,
Skipper got a fright, he was down below in
the boat when suddenly there was this violent squall and " A Lady "
slammed back onto the marina
with a bang. adding more chips to the
transome.
18.00hre , We got a weather report and it seems
that we would still have favourable conditions to sail tomorrow for East
London
or Port Elizebeth. However we have the
refridgeration man comming at 10am so we will have to wait untill he is
done.
19.00hrs We went to the " Fish Club " a
restaurant on the other side of the marina, where we met some of the other World
ARC sailors
and after some chat , sat down and had a good
meal, Skipper even had a " bonnofie pie " for desert, yum,
yum,
We strolled back to the boat and chatted for a
while before retiring to the scratchers.
That it.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde, (
Skipper )
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