3rd June 2008 - Somewhere else in the Bay of Biscay
Bali Hai
Neal Stow
Tue 3 Jun 2008 16:29
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After the first night's gentle introduction to
night sailing it was all change last night with strong winds and gusts of up to
30 knots. In fact last night was a bit of a disaster all
round. Enjoying a lovely sail in the evening, cruising along at 8
knots, we overheard Jacky on Arwen saying how they had put in two
reefs on account of the black clouds that they could see in the distance - for a
quiet night. What rubbish we said, does she not know that night is coming
and all clouds look black at night, so on we went with full sails up.
Well, after spending forever putting in our reefs at two in the morning in the
pitch dark, with rocky seas and howling winds, I will now look on Jacky as the
all knowing Weather God and will bow down before her.
In the morning most of the crew were exhausted from
the night's exertions. The exception being John who managed to sleep
through it all, oblivious to all that was going on. To make
matters worse we found that Arwen (with her two reefs) was now twice as far
ahead of us than she had been the previous evening and
also in our efforts to avoid the shipping we were now getting closer
to New York than to Finistere.
It is now late morning on 3rd June. It is
nice and sunny with 10 knots of breeze and we are heading back towards
Spain.
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