Still grinding to windward Veg report 39 29.6N: 47 36.0W Sailed 2106 miles with another 1082 to Newport
Ellatrout3
Sun 8 Jun 2014 16:35
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Saturday 7th June
Yes still trying to get south of the iceberg area
with the wind resisting all the way. Currently the wind is howling in the
rigging, we have three reefs inthe mainsail and a half rolled No 3 jib and
the wind is coming straight from the SE corner of the berg area which I am
trying to get round. I have marked that position Ice 2 on my chart. On the 2nd
June I reached the edge of the iceberg area and Ice 2 was 200 miles tro the
south of me. I have already sail 300 miles since then and I'm still 30 miles
away. All being well I should get round that point some time Sunday, six
days to achieve 200 miles, at this rate I'll not gwet to Newport till
christmas!!!
At the moment I'm hal f way through an Ella Trout
hash - Tin of corned beef, tin of butter beans, tin of mixed veg, half a tin of
tomato and basil soup left over from yesterday and a packet of Uncle
Bens rice. Very tasty,quick and
easy, makes three or four meals.
I ate my last orange today, I've six apples left
and I've finished my first cabbage (2nd cabbage looks ok) - all good. The
carrots were poor, rotted in a few days and the parsnips also went mouldy
quickly and were very bitter. Potatos and sweet potatos, still got some
all good. Don't think I'll lose weight this trip even though it will take
quite a bit longer
Love Poppa/Dad/Roger
Ps Iridian have an outage!! this weekend so very
weak signal, couldn't transmittill now.
Sunday 8th June
The winds were very strong duruing the night and I
made little progess against them but I did manage to round the SE corner of the
iceberg area and trying to get west.
A position report from Elaine shows that Paul,
Independance, is sailing through the lower part of the Iceberg area; does he
know somethingh I don't? It has taken me nearly 6 days to get down and around
the southern edge, if I'd sailed through I would be 2 or 300 miles further on,
or sunk!!!
ENGINE
My advisers were right, water behind the cotrol
panal, I am currently drying out, taking remedial action and
hoping.
Poppa/Dad/Roger
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