1000 Miles

Beoga's Madventure
Henry and Marina Lupton
Sat 28 Nov 2009 17:48
Celebrated the 1000 mile mark (nautical miles that
is) with Cranberry juice in our finest polycrystal.
Lively since middle of the night when we were all
up hauling in sails and cursing more chaafe. We had a little rain and werent
sure if it was a squall so we acted quickly. Wind doubles in the loocalised
squalls and God knows we are wearing the gear enough. Squall drill was ok except
nothing worked.....
Sea is bigger and wind consistently at 20 kts
today. Sleep was difficult as it was bumpy and noisy, a bit like the first
couple of nights.
Sourced the guy chaafe I think so version 3c of the
protection is ready for use. Sharp edges of the spinnaker pole were finely honed
by Cormac with extracts of Marinas emery board.
A sacrificial strop is gonna be used next time.
Halyard stripped again too, leaving cover off next
time and relying on a doubling of the inner core in a splice. ya have to be here
kinda thing.
Dermot tweaking lectrix to see if Betsy might steer
a little more sanely.
All squeeky clean again and sitting beside each
other this afternoon. Water maker ran for few hours to catch up. Sucking lots of
air today.
OUch- Joan just landed herself on the laptop.
A fine Chile from Dermot for dinner last
night, vegetarian until a flying fish almost landed in Laras bowl.
Lots of seagulls today and just as I opened the
laptop a big whale surfed along in the wave behind us. I think it was a pilot
whale but way bigger than the ones we saw near canaries. Didnt hang around for
us to ask his name and species though.
After this mornings splicing and boat cleaning and
this afternoons body cleaning the books are now out in force. Dermots choice-
diesel engines, not sure if I should be concerned......
Presently at 21:26.25N 32:55.49W .
Not a huge amount more to say today. Hope ye are
all well back home and that Mickey Furey is enjoying his birthday.
time to go goosewinging.
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