Friday night is curry night
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Sat 26 Nov 2011 01:48
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18:40.6N 029:21.8W 1021 miles
covered.
Food plays a large part of a transatlantic
crossing, probably because mostly all we seem to do is eat and sleep, and you
can't say a lot about the sleeping part. In the daily ARC radio net we had
reports from all the US boats as to how they had cooked their Thanksgiving
turkeys last night and what trimmings they had with it. Also we heard that
one boat lost their genoa halyard and it took three people up the mast to repair
it. We had it lucky with our spinnaker halyard.
This morning we finished our two days of bearing
south to find wind and we have now started on a direct run to St
Lucia. It will be a couple of days before we know whether coming down
here was the right move.
In order to go downwind we had to put up our
Parasailor again. Before we hoisted it we checked the "Dyneema" (strong
rope) joints to make sure they were OK, and found they were chafing badly,
so we have reverted to using metal shackles until we work out what the problem
was. We don't want to dump our Parasailor
into the sea like we did the asymmetric spinnaker (which is still waiting to
have the tears taped up in case we need it again).
Now we are going downwind it really feels like we
are in the tropics. A balmy breeze and a gentle swell.
Andrea changed the dressing on my finger and it is
still looking surprisingly good considering. In three days the stitches
have to come out, which she is not looking forward to doing, and I am not
looking forward to having done. She tells me they don't give
you anaesthetic just to take stitches out, but I think she just
doesn't want to inject a real finger instead of a chicken leg or whatever they
trained on in her medical course.
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