St Helena to Salvador - Day 4
Eowyn
Tue 25 Jan 2011 11:00
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Éowyn is underway to
Salvador in position 15:31.484S
012:27.966W
We have sailed quite well so
far, but now the forecast is for very light winds for the next week. We have the
asymmetric spinnaker up but are only managing 4 knots or so. The yachts which
left a day earlier have much better winds and are steaming ahead! We have to
save our fuel for the very lightest of the conditions.
Life onboard is pleasant
though, with fine weather making for relaxed sailing.
On the menu front, the first
night we had a chicken pasta, followed by Boerkwors courtesy of Mike. I made an
apricot bread & butter pudding to follow. Last night was curry night with a
beef jalfrezi and tonight Bob will be cooking haggis, tatties & neaps for
Burns Night. We have only one more night of fresh food then we are down to
canned meat. Some of it, particularly of French origin is OK. The bread runs out
today, so I have to get baking later on.
At 1000 today, the spinnaker
downhaul broke. this is quite dramatic but not as bad as it seems as the sail
just flies like a flag and is quite easy to recover. The broken rope was soon
mended and the sail back up and flying. The only other breakage on this leg
so far has been the faucet outlet of the watermaker but a temporary repair seems
to be lasting.
The SSB net is now quite
difficult as there is more than 500 miles separation between the yachts. The
Generals (Rui & Antonio) are in the middle of the fleet and provide the best
SSB relay. Chessie, Crazy Horse & Ocean Jasper leave St Helena today and so
the whole fleet is now at sea.
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