Sailing around the World and avoiding the freeze ( Presently at sea, Cape Town to St. Helena )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 10 Jan 2011 05:49
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MONDAY 9th
JANUARY 2011 DAY
3
The night passed without incident, a few tankers
passed within a couple of miles and we could see another W. Arc
boat
behind us, we think it was " Lady Lisa " but could
not identify her.
Ohhhhh those stars, the dawn, the sun
rise, the deep blue water, the clear blue skies, as they would say in the
country side, " Just Magic"
Skipper remembers with great fondness our trips to
Scotland with our friends " Ian & Alan Mc Millan " on Alan's Moody
336,
There again the Dusk's and the Dawns were something
special, The crimson skies when the sun would be setting down
over Barra on the Outer Hybrides, We still
have the photo's on " A Lady" and dig them out every so often for a peep
show.
Did you know that Barra , on South Ouist, was named
after St. Finbarr , who hailed from Cork. He did so Boy.
and they still serve " Beamish " stout instead of
Guinness, which is made in cork.
08.00hrs distance travelled
.................................... 159 miles
distance to destination............................1,541 miles
09.00hrs RADIO CALL "
Eowyn" is radio net controller for today and tomorrow,
We gave our position and recived the position of
all the other boats, except Ocean Jasper & Crazy Horse who are still waiting
for their visa's
to enter Brazil, It seems the Americans need
visa's to enter that country.
In any event, we are the lead boat in the race to
St Helena, Wild Tigris is ahead of us , but is motor sailing and not
taking part in the race.
12.00hrs Distance travelled in
the first 24 hours............................. 195 miles
14.00hrs We set up all the
spinniker guys, sheets, uphauls and downhauls, snatch blocks etc.etc.we are
going to fly the repaired KITE,
fifteen minutes later, we hauled up the KITE
( parasail ) and were delighted when it filled and all seem to be well
there.
It was great to have that towing us along again and
of course it increased our speed by 1.5 knots, soon after, we left the othe
yacht
vanish out of sight behind.
With just the KITE flying, we had a great day
sailing and enjoyed the whole thing, however we saw no birds or any sign of fish
life.
Lunch was a ham salad, the left over gammon since
yesterday , and it was yum, yum, ---- keep the bellies full.
19.30hrs, We had another beautifull sunset just as
we sat down it the starlight restaurant for a chicken curry
and rice prepared by Emily , all just
lovely.
The wind was still blownig from the SW over our
Port side and was on the increase, when it reached 28 knots, we decided to take
down the
KITE and white sail the boat, A good decision as
the wind kept increasing right up to 32/33 knots.
We chatted in the cockpit for hours before starting
the night shifts,
EMILY...............................21.00hrs
/ 00.00hrs
AILEEN.............................00.00hrs
/ 03.00hrs
SKIPPER..........................03.00hrs
/ 06.00hrs
SHAM...............................06.00hrs
/ 09.00hrs
Thats all for today,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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