Sailing without sails
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Fri 28 Oct 2011 21:48
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28:07.75N 15:25.51W
In the end I took all the sails down to try and
slow down enough to avoid getting to Gran Canaria before dawn. That
cut the speed down to 4.5 knots but it was still a close thing. We arrived
at 8:30, just after the sun rose. We have calculated that, in the worst
case scenario where we lose our mast and all our sails, we can still make it
across the Atlantic in about six weeks with food and drink to
spare.
Anyway here we are in Las Palmas, ready for
the start of the ARC (assuming we can get everything that broke on the way down
here fixed in time). The wind instruments
can't be fixed because they have disappeared completely, presumably lost at sea,
so I have ordered some new ones. Bertie has to go up the mast
tomorrow to fix the deck light, which means my priority is to fix the
hydraulic winch first, or else I will be winching him up manually.
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