Sailing around the World ( Presently at sea between Vanuatu & Australia . Distance 1150 miles )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 19 Jul 2010 18:13
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MONDAY 19th JULY
2010 NIGHT
4
00.00hrs, Progress was great as Aileen went
on watch,
No other yachts in sight, The wind was a
solid 25 / 28 knots SE,
Distance
travelled..........................................614 n.miles
Distance to go to the Barrier
Reef...................364 n. miles
Distance travelled in last
24hrs.......................214 n.miles
03.00hrs Aileen went to the large bunk and
took the moon with her , now we only had a sky full of twinkling
stars.
We have still a great breeze and magnificant night
sailing,
09.00hrs RADIO CALL
............ Crazy Horse & Ocean Jasper are still well ahead,
even though the distance is reduced to approx 50 miles
or so, that means we took back 10 miles or so
during the last 24 hours.
Kalliope III is still 10 / 15 n.miles
behind, the rest of the fleet range 30 miles to 250 miles behind,
11.00hrs Skipper and Scotty set about and
repaired all the holes in the blue spinniker with spinniker tape. magic
stuff,
Aileen was kept busy going through the presses and
lockers and ditching anything likely to be confiscated on arrival in
Mackay.
The rest we are trying desperatly to eat,,,
On that subject, Aileen decided to try Margaret's
reciepy for chocklet cake. and while she was in the Galley, made some scones as
well.
12.00hrs Distance travelled in 4
days...........................702 n.miles
Distance to the Great Barrier
Reef..................................295 n miles
Distance travelled in the last
24hrs..................................199.4 n miles
13.00hrs Eating time again, even though no
one is really hungry, we are going to stuff all the food we can manage into our
bellies
rather than throw it over the side or let the
customs guys take it home for themselves. Bloody Beaurocrats.
We had light crispy crackling and pork, plus
cinamon biscuits and cottage cheese, plus some of Aileen's scones.
14.00hrs, Beautifull sailing weather, wind on the
beam, and we are doing a nice 9 / 11 knots, meanwhile , Aileen is
examining the weavels in the various packs of flour, We eventuelly decide
against cooking any of them, as they have too much proteen in them for our
delicate systems.
18.00hrs, Even though we are sailing along merilly,
all predictions are , the wind will ease big time overnight so we went for the
repaired blue spinniker,, skipper was gagging to
put it up and see how the repairs worked out .....and we did it before it got
dark..
It looked great and gave us an extra 2 knots,
WOW
during the day, we changed the card in the chart
plotter , thats the one in the cockpit, We inserted a card for Australia,
As we said before, these things are in credible,
and the detail amazing, down to the marina's and depth of water around marina's
It all makes for much more plesent and safe
sailing, and gives us something to look at all day.
20,00hrs Dinner consisted of Lasagne and
pea's , God we must have a ton of frozen pea's in the deep freeze,
This was quick and different, and was followed by
some of Aileens freshly made chocklet cake with rasberries, ice cream, and
all
covered with chocklet sauce...
yuum, god, we are going to be like the 3 fat ducks,,
23 .00 hrs The wind was still holding up,, great
stuff, just more beautifull night sailing again.
The watches
:- 21.00hrs /
00.00hrs ..............................Aileen
00.00hrs
/ 03.00hrs ...............................Scotty
03.00hrs /
06.00hrs................................Skipper
06.00hrs
/ 09.00hrs.................................Aileen
Thats it from the 3 fat Ducks,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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