" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the World,
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 21 May 2010 07:49
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THURSDAY 20th
MAY 2010 ( presently at sea,
between Bora Bora and the Cook Islands )
We had a good night at sea, just one or two
squalls, but even at that, the wind never went above 28 knots, but
the squalls brought plenty of rain , and umbrella's
are useless at sea.
Not having the radar is a bit of a bummer, it is
great for identifying the squalls and their direction. we miss that piece of
equipment.
However, we have the AIS working again , so we
could see " Ronja" and " Dreamcatcher" for most of the night untill we
went
too far ahead of them and lost the signals. the
range must be approx 15 / 20 miles, depending on the height of their AIS
ariels.
Early morning saw plenty of cloud and wind, A
steady 22 / 25 knot trade wind, so we were averaging 8 knots. happy
out.
The skipper was still the worst for wear,
very tired and spent most of the day asleep in the cockpit.
Fats and Scotty spent most of the day playing
Sudoku. It seems infectious.....
Fats did a light lunch, he's great, always hungry,
so tends to feed everyone else as a bye product.
Later we re rigged the fishing line/ rod and let it
out 1.5 times the length of " A Lady",, This, according to Fats and Scotty , is
the recommended distance
the line should be out the back end of the
boat, We will have to wait and see..
On the ARC transatlantic, Mark always had the line
out so far, it was impossible to see the lure jumping across the surface, but we
caught
plenty of fish. and have the photo's to prove the
case
16.00 hrs, The skipper woke up, shuddered , and got
going in the gally, prepared belly of Pork , roast spuds, creamed
potatoes,
carrotts and cabbage,cooked with goose fat and
apples... the crackling was bloody marvelous, and all served up at
19.30hrs
During this operation ( cooking ) we ran the
generator, to feed energy to the cooker, make water, and charge the
batteries,
Since we replaced the two dud batteries, everything
is working much much better, and they only need charging once or twice a
day
at most, whereas last month, we had to run the
generator 4 times a day at least to keep the battery bank topped
up.
20.00hrs, with the wind now at 26knots, we reefed
down the boat for the nighty, and were still doing 8 knots,
but much more upright and stable in the building
sea's.
Thats it for now,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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