Sailing around the World ( presently at Sea between The Coco's Islands and Maritius.)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 29 Sep 2010 05:34
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TUESDAY 28th
SEPTEMBER 2010 ( Day
2 at Sea )
We had a very cloudy night with plenty of heavy
showers and huge sea's rolling in behind us all night,
Its not a great feelig to hear all these waves
breaking around the boat and not see a thing as it was so dark. and of
course
the occasional one would crash over the deck and
into the cockpit.
Generally, it was a miserable night at
sea.
However we could see another 5 boats around us, so
we were not the only ones having a bad time.
09.00hrs Radio Net :- Todays
broadcast was by " Brown Eyed Girl " and we could hardly hear them as they were
so far ahead, having left
with the earlier boats. We only got the
position of some yachts, and as we were one of the last to leave, we are plonked
at the back of the fleet for a change.
Distance travelled :- 133 miles,
By midday, the rain was torrential and no let up,
but we kept going SSW as suggested by Bruce, our weather advisor. down to
15:30 South,
At one stage, the wind dissapeared altogether, and
we had to motor for a short while before Skipper and Neil had to
get out on
the deck in absolutly pissing rain and shorten
sail, reefs into everything. Ohhhhh this is afull .....
The wind went all over thhe place and a few times
we did complete circles.. can you just imagine,, going around in
circles..........its funny
but not funny.
Eventually, 2 hours later, when things settled down
, we had a shower and put on some dry clothes, But the big problem with
down wind sailing in these conditions is the wind
and rain just blows straight into the cockpit. Dave and Sue in "
Voyageur" have done
a great job on their boat, they have detachable
sides to their Bimini, and this keeps the rain out in
situations like this.
16.30 hrs Lunch / dinner was an easy
Lasagne with rice , peas and chilly sauce to add a kick to the
rice.
Later we did some emails and sat there reading
while we sailed along in missery, RAIN, Rain, rain and more
rain
emails from Paul Tetlow, Leah, and Margaret How
gave us a lift and improved the quality of the day.
We kept in touch with " Voyageur" and"
Tzigany" during the rest of the day, It was great to have someone else to
chat to on and off.
18.00hrs Distance
travelled......................................212 n miles
Distance to Destination............................2088 n miles
Our ETA................................................Sunday
10/10/10
Aileen got sick, Thats the first ever
she got sick on a boat, she does not do that, so we assume she had some
sort of bug.
The rest of us decided we would do the night shifts
between us and she could stay in bed. rocking and rolling.
Blooming misserable...
night shifts
:- 22.00hrs /
01.00hrs ...........................................Terry,
01.00hrs
/ 04.00hrs............................................Skipper
04.00hrs / 07.00hrs
...........................................Neil
Thats all for today,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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