Island Kea II - 16th day at sea

Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Mon 10 Dec 2007 14:56
Position as at 12.00 midday UTC 10th of December
15:01.12N 51:34.15W
 
The rest of yesterday was really nice.  we had between 16 and 24 kts all afternoon and all night.  We poled out the main jib on one side and the main sheeted out on the other, and we are still running wiht this now doing just over 7 kts.
Last night was wonderful. Nice and warm so only needed to wear shorts and T shirt for night watch.  The sky was full of stars and the seas reasonably calm.  We see this morning that we have a flying fish in the aft cockpit but it is not big enough to actually cook!
The chef of the evening last night was Steve and we had freshly cooked chicken Curry.  Every day so far we have had fresh food and there is still food in the freezer and a bit of veg left so we are doing pretty well.
Yesterday the autopilot stopped working again and we found that the bolt on  the hydraulic drive had sheared.  Luckily we had a spare so Steve and Tom fixed this and I got the job of repacking the aft locker this time.  The number of times the bicycles have been in and out is quite significiant now and we just have to make sure we use them to justify all the work around carrying them.
 
We have now been able to dry out all the wet clothes and the boat has been aired and spirits are high..
We know that quite a few boats will be ahead of us in St Lucia, but we are happy to arrive safely and Friday sounds a good day to arrive, you never know it might be Thursday night if we make good speed - so we are at the whims of weather and wind.
Katrin