Mixed day - but still progress south

Buesnel
Fri 8 May 2009 18:25
40:25.02N 8:58.03W
Rather a grotty start to the day and then the wind fell right off. We ended
up motoring for 3 hours and opened up the cinema on eXhilarance - the vote was
for "Bourne Identity" which the crew seemed to enjoy.
Then the weather swung around South Easterly and the sun came out. We now
have a beautiful evening with 9knots of wind, spinnaker out but flying very
close so we are only managing about 9 knots boat speed.
We headed more into the coast today (as you will see from our SPOT tracker)
so we could all get access to phones etc.
As I write this down below we have decided to 'dump' the spinnaker - the
wind (probably a sea breeze) has died away and there is not really enough to get
it flyiny properly.
Looks like we may have a motoring session through the night tonight
Crew all happy. There are now the inevitable 'in' jokes that will not be
funny back home but keep us all laughing. "Human" by the the Killers is the boat
song and is played very loud several times a day - we are somewhat worried about
upsetting our neighbours of course!
Vics is keeping us well fed, Lol is keeping us well beered!
Hopefully some reasonable wind (F4- on the beam always nice) some sun
and more visits from our favourite sea mammals
tomorrow. |