Day 10 to St Helena
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 6 Feb 2020 06:00
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22:12.96 S 1:40.27 E Day Ten to St
Helena
 At ten I got up to
handle the last of the bananas – thank heavens it wasn’t as grim as yesterdays
experience. Bear’s little old laptop to the cockpit (because it’s the only one
that can talk to the Sat Phone), my carrot and fibreglass in hand, I settle to
the usual routing of typing the previous days business.
Outside I found a
calm, flat, gorgeous sea and a sunny day. Bear had furled the genoa as it
was doing a zero for effort. So the engine stays on.
  Todays ‘happy
pictures’ came in the shape of Bear refuelling that took from midday for
nearly an hour. 110 litres went in and that, if needed, will get us all the way
to James Town.
 During the re-fuelling I noticed – I’m
sure you are getting furrier ??? Well, it’s to keep me warm. ........no
comment.
Bear had korma and rice, side salad
and a glass of rose, I had salad, tuna and silverkins. On the backgammon field I
won five three, long may this be a habit. That’s three
days on the trot, how you can win is rude as you get the dollars as
well. Huh, you are still one ahead, Sir. Really. Yes, it’s thirteen twelve to you and whatever
happened to your, it’s fun to play rule.....Growling.
For
a wild change, and being such a lovely day, I wanted to stay up for a while in
my 14:00 – 18:00 rest, so we played Mex Train Dominoes. I was having a rough
time through the first two rounds but a corking final round let me get the win
333 to 375. Very annoying you didn’t have a starter on
the fours, gathered loads and still beat me. Fate my dear, fate.
HUH.
The rest of the day went quickly.
I’ve made it to the D’s in my Desert Island Disc Archives (total to get through
611, so that will get me across to Antigua without problem).
  Sunset.
At six this morning we had covered
123 nmiles.
Total completed 1169
nautical miles.
ALL IN ALL FULL OF
BEANS
OH, FOR A BIT MORE
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