Janneau 57 #86 - 19 March

Sweetest Thing
Anthony Richards
Mon 19 Mar 2012 12:56
Position at 1200 UTC 19 March
 
39 14.7n
013 32.6e
 
23 hour run 192 nm
 
WInd ESE F2
 
 
 
 
Well, what can I say... not good at this blogging business this trip sorry...
Where did we get to... day two...evening.. we saw a pod of whales... at least two maybe three one big one, about a hundred metres from the boat!!! mega!!!
 
Then we had a breif stop to do the oil change... in sardinia, and then last night we discovered the biggest flaw of all on this boat!!! It has 6 electric winches, (great to reef and furl and let out the sails single handed.) a television, a cocktail cabinet, and two very spacious double cabins.... unfortunately what they forgot to install was any kind of lee cloths... this boat is not designed for overnight sailing...when it came to sleeping on the starboard tack in big swell and 25+ knots of wind last night it was not fun.. in fact I'm not entirely sure i did sleep... I spent rather a lot of time trying to find a way to wedge myself in so i didnt slide right down the cabin and land on poor trina, who had wedged herself on the floor between the bed and the lockers... in the end gave up, and slept on the wood occasionally banging up the down into the matress...anyway our cabin now looks like a bombs hit it the kind of mess you get when small children have been building forts out of all the furntiure they can move... you cant get through the door because of my mattress and you cant get to the head because of trina sleeping.. all fun!!!
Still, today it is sunny!!! calmer although we are still roling around a bit.. but I am going to attempt a shower becasue quite frankly I smell!! I just washed down the decks so that when I have had my shower I have somewhere nice to sunbathe... may even bust out my shorts!!woop!! how love the sunshine!! Hope all's well...