Wednesday day 11

BARONESS
Jim & Christine Lister
Fri 27 May 2011 01:24
Our position at 8.00am was 06.09.86 110.13.32W COG 260 SOG 5k Wind 12E Waves 2m.
Monday I rang my Mum and Dad to let them know we were OK. We had had a rough night and I had got up feeling like I'd been spud picking all night with back and neck sore. The seas improved during the day although we still had 17k wind but romped on at 6-7k. The kettle hit the floor breaking the handle which then required glue and sticky tape.
Tuesday was a little better but our nice quiet nights have ceased and we did not get much sleep due to the rolling and side to side rocks. Tuesday afternoon the chart plotter stoped working , AIS and depth gauge. Our handheld GPS isn't working and the old Garmin at first decided that it couldn't find us (we have no chip in this chart plotter for this area but do have charts on the computer) The SSB was working and we did at least have our position on that. Depth decided to play again later in the day and (touch wood is still ok) Garmin has now fired up so we have speed, COG and position. Still no radar or AIS but then there really is very little out here.
Our days are now in a pattern of sleeping, eating and reading. I find even making a hot drink quite tiring with hanging on. I'm writing this with foot propped against the table and its calmer than it has been.
Jim has to have a walk round the deck each day as other people have Newspaper and milk delivered each morning, we have flying fish and squid, lovely, the flying fish stink even if still alive and the squid leave nice black ink blots on the deck. The birds have been eating squid as they have pooped on our mainsail.
We've run out of chocolate and crisps and also cereal for breakfast, no bread as its too rough to bake. So if anyone wants to send a food parcel to Baroness, somewhere in the South Pacific about 1700 miles from Marquises, I would be very grateful, thank you.
Today we've been lazy, Jim wanted to finish his book, last in a series of 5 and I've slept, really need to be practicing my French. We've had the genoa out for a while but it kept collapsing so we are just on the main, wind not on beam and not quite off the stern, perhaps tomorrow we'll try poling out the genoa and goose winging. We've had some success with putting a block on the end of the boom and running a sheet through this to the genoa. It keeps the genoa out on same side as main and gives it a little more wind and also stops the cars on deck from rattling and banging.

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