Re: 29th June - Leg 2, 129nm to Manacles
Concerto's Azab Blog
George Isted
Wed 29 Jun 2011 17:32
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48:53.8N 007:47.2W
second report of the day! mostly because we are excited to be so
close to home.
Mark has his pinny on and cooking dinner while I trim and keep and eye on
the course that wendy is steering.
No dolphins yet today but we did find a small fish on deck a little
earlier. As we are now back on the continental shelf there is a lot more
shipping around so we are going to have to get used to being extra vigilant
again.
If (when) Carolina make it in before us I hope they remember to bring the
cold beers to the boat when we arrive. I expect we will head back into
Pendennis marina on arrival.
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48:24.9N 008:55.7W at 0923BST
From the radio chatter is sounds like Carolina, Franglais, BladeRunner and
Concerto all have roughly the same distance to go. All quiet from
Strategem who are either well in the lead or just keeping quiet on the radio to
keep their game plan a secret.
All fine aboard for the last 24 hours, the small spinnaker went up again
yesterday afternoon as the seas had flattened down a bit. We have
been frustrated with the kite and getting a decent course out of Wendy as we had
a beam-on sea that was knocking us about. It was much more successful last
night and we made some good progress.
The kite came back down again at 0800 as while Mark was on watch the wind
has shifted a bit more around to the north and the best we could make was
090-100 which was not great. So we are now back to white sails and
plugging on at the best speed we can make.
Not long to go now with 182nm to the manacles buoy and only a few miles on
from there to Falmouth. Will be checking the weather in a bit but I’m
hoping yesterdays forecast for light northerlies has changed as that could give
us a slow finish.
We had two great shows from the dolphins yesterday who played with the
boat, jumping out of the water and darting in and out of the bow-wave.
bye for now. G&M
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