Saturday Day 21
BARONESS
Jim & Christine Lister
Sun 5 Jun 2011 01:10
We had a rolly night and I didn't get much sleep. We had heavy looking rain clouds over us by 4.00pm and it did rain a little and then heavier at around 4.00am. We didn't reef the main but did reef in the genoa and had winds of 20k. We had a slow start to the morning with little wind, confused seas and an uncomfortable ride but it smoothed out by lunchtime and we cracked on at 7k. We are still goose winged but are not getting south as we would like. Keeping north seems to have paid off as we have had better winds and weather than others that were ahead of us. Even Northan Rose has had some bad weather and they are only 120 or so miles ahead of us but are further south. We may well have to put the genoa out to starboard and close haul for a while, but not tonight! It does make for an uncomfortable time.
Today has been a lovely day, very warm and blue skies the sea temperature is now 33.1c, it was 31.6 in Galapagos. I have made scones which still haven't risen as I would have liked but are better looking than the last lot. I also made ginger biscuits as we haven't had biscuits for about 10 days. Making ginger biscuits needs "consumer participation" ie Jim has to help! I had some root ginger so his job is to grate it and then help with creaming of butter and sugar as my arm aches and then we both do the rolling into balls for the oven but one lot into the oven and nearly cooked and the fishing line screams out so in between helping with the fish situation I am also checking oven and taking out cooked goods. The end result was another 4-5' Marlin, this time with photos and another lost hook, lure was saved and fish returned to its home.
We had 380 miles to go this morning so are still on target for Tuesday. We have both got through 7 books on this passage so far.
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