From the rocketship Bamboozle!
Bamboozle
Jamie and Lucy Telfer
Thu 22 Apr 2010 18:05
Just to keep you posted this is our position at 1700 GMT on Thursday 22
April ........which means we are going like a rocket! We have covered the
first 1000 nautical miles (1850km) in just under five days i.e. averaging
just over 200 miles a day including leaving the Galapagos Islands which is
quicker than we have ever covered this sort of distance before.
We have had more wind than you would probably expect for this passage and
had a solid 25 knots all day yesterday which built up quite an uncomfortable
confused sea but Bamboozle handles it so well....no crashing into the waves,
no groans or worrying creaking ...she just keeps on trucking. We were
reefed for about 24 hours but are happy as clams as the miles slip by.
Yesterday we heard from two smaller yachts a few hundred miles behind us and
they were neither as happy or comfortable (we would probably have been the
same on Savoir Vivre) and the Pacific was not being as peaceful as they had
hoped but with a bit of luck things will have settled down for them by now.
Our wind has dropped to a more relaxing 18 knots from the SSE keeping us on
a beam reach doing between 8 and 9 knots.
We now have just under 2000 nm to go which means ice cream for lunch today
as a treat for covering the first third of the trip! The sun is shining and
Lucy is having her morning snooze after her overnight watch. All is well on
board apart from breaking the little plastic hook that helps hoist the
ballooner. I have managed to retrieve both bits from the track in the
forestay and to glue them but it may need a bit of nifty fibreglass work to
strengthen the joint before we can use it again....a little job to keep me
busy for a while and I will endeavour not to fibreglass myself to the
cockpit table in the process!