Sweetest Thing
Anthony Richards
Sat 12 Dec 2009 12:45
Position at 1200 UTC 12 Dec
18 37.959n
057 37.275w
 
24 hour run 152 nm
 
Wind NE F5
 
We had a brief whale encounter yesterday afternoon, the same species as the whale two days earlier. It swam behind us for a few minutes and then disappeared.
 
Last night at about 0330 UTC our steering cable parted. Inspection of the broken end indicates a chaffe point under the cockpit floor. I expect to be able to buy rope in the Virgin Islands to repair the steering on Tuesday. However, repaired or not, there should be negligible inpact on our progress. The chaffe point also needs to be identified and dealt with.
 
Otherwise no problems.