Sailing around the World,
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 28 Jan 2011 04:46
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THURSDAY 27th
JANUARY 2011
00.00hrs
Distance travelled since St.
Helena.............................1,128 miles
( we sailed 380 miles in the last 48 hours,)
It was a beautiful starrey night again, one ship
passed heading east away in the distance to the south.and the blue spinniker was
flying.
02.00hrs, Sham called Skipper , who was in the bunk
at the time,
On deck, the spinniker was blowing in the wind,
soon it became appearent that the guy had sheered off, ( as Terry says, " Just
broke" )
Chrips, more trouble, We turned on the fwd deck
lights, put on the gloves and made our way to the fore deck ,
At this stage , all the retriving lines on the
Spinniker sock were twisted around the spinniker itself, so this made the
task of snuffing the sail
much more difficult,
However , after much struggling, pulling and
hauling, cursing and swearing, we managed to get things under control and
eventually
managed to drop the sail on deck,
At this stage we were dripping from the hard work
and the heat. we could have been squeezed out to dry.
We then set up a goose wing arrangment and off we
went again on our merry way,
Alls well again, so we sat down in the cockpit and
had a cup of " Barrys Tea "
And, and, the Girls slept through the whole thing.
as girls should do !
07.00hrs, We had covered 200 miles in the
last 24 hrs.
09.00hrs :- RADIO CALL We made good progress
on the whole fleet again over the last 24 hours,
Today, we were back to cornflakes and cornflakes
for breakfast, no more fancy stuff for the moment,
Another beautifull day,
We spent some time looking at the spinniker, but
did not take it out of the sock,
we also did some sewing on the sock itself, its
beggining to show its age,
The flipping generator overheated again and
stopped, we must have a small leak or something in the manifold, we will have to
get
this looked at sooner than later. but right now,
the only thing we can do is keep topping it up with coolent. a pain in the butt.
Aileen did the lunch, while skipper changed the
lure on the fishing rod as nothing was happening here fast.
Its unusual for us to go more than 2 days without
catching some thing .
06.00hrs We put the roast chicken and roast
potatoes in the oven and our milage in the last 24 hrs since this
time
last night was 182 miles, It makes a big differance
not to have the spinniker flying all day and night.
We gybed the boat back onto Port before setteling
down to another night at sea, ( night no. 8 )
the weather was good, moderate seas, the wind went
up and down from 14 to 24 knots and the skies were partly cloudy.
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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