Sailing around the World ( presently at sea )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 16 Sep 2010 09:10
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WEGNESDAY 15th
SEPTEMBER 2010
Again , another beautifull starrey night to be at
sea, still plenty of lightning off to the north.
I wont repeat myself tonight,
Aileen loves to read on her watch, while skipper
finds things to do , or in lots of cases, just lie down on the aft deck and
stare at stars.
09.00hrs RADIO NET " Destiny "
are duty net controllers today, and Thomas did the official buisness, He joined
the boat in Darwin and
is skipper untill they arrive in Coco's
Islands.
We are 3rd boat in the fleet, with the rest not
very far behind, the wind is very fickle, and with a lumpy sea, its difficult to
get any sort
of speed out of the boat.
Skipper did a chart and marked the position of all
the boats every day, so we can see at a glance where everybody is
located
relative to ourselves.
We are about 27 miles south of the rum line,all our
weather forcasters are telling us to keep south, and looking at our grib file (
weather diagrams)
on the computer, it looks as if thats good
advice. sso we are staying down there, but the wind is still
light.
10.00hrs We turned on our high pressure fresh
water pump and gave the KITE a good hosing down, We have to run the generator to
do this, so
we made some water at the same time,
This uses about 250L in 15 minutes, so making water at the same time is a good
idea.
We left the kite dry for a while and then set about
checking if any damage had been done, lucky for us, No damage
done.
So then we set about rebagging the KITE , this is
not easy on a boat, mostly because of all the little strings holding the
wing.
That whole operation took about 3 hours, when
we were all done, we hoisted the wet Kite up the mast. phew ! what a
job.
but we got there in the end and after a while, when
the sail dried out. it worked as it should do , hauling us along
behind.
12.00hrs distance travelled
..................310 miles in 48 hrs,, ohhhhhh very slow for us.
14 30hrs Dinner consisted of roast rack of
lamb, creamed potatoes, and baked beans, yum, yum,
The lamb was the best ever, so tender,,,
delicious, Of course the skipper thinks it was his cooking.
We had a few naps during the afternoon,
18.00hrs, The wind died off to about 6knots,
so shortly after, we started the engine and motored in a SW direction, to get
further south.
20hrs, we had a light snack, lots of chat,
especially recounting the last 24 hrs,
Night watches tonight,
:-
10.00hrs / 00.00hrs .....................................
Neil
00.00hrs .
02.00hrs.......................................Terry
02.00hrs /
04.00hrs.......................................Skipper
04.00hrs /
06.00hrs.......................................Aileen
06.00hrs /
08.00hrs.......................................Neil
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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