Island Kea II - 11th day at sea
Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Wed 5 Dec 2007 11:59
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Position as at 12.00
midday UTC 5th of December
18:10.48N
38:26.14W
Yesterday
we had the cruising chute up from midday until 7pm. We then had Main and
Jib up for the night. Unfortunately the wind was blowing from such a
direction that we were heading quite far south and this morning we were going
quite happily towards the Amazon river but not towards St Lucia. We have
now put up the parasailor and we are heading straight for St Lucia sailing
directly down wind. We could really do with the spinnaker pole in order to
stabelize the boat so we are going to have a got at fixing that today, well
enought to make it usable.
We saw
another yacht yesterday, first time for days and called them on the VHF and it
turned out to be Equianox. It was great to be able to see and speak to
another yacht. Steve from Star Chaser is one of the crew who we met in Las
Palmas. They lost their boom a few days ago and are sailing to St Lucia with the
use of Head sail only, Jib overnight and Spinnaker/Cruising Chute in the
day. We know that a few yachts have lost their boom so we consider
ourselves quite lucky.
Today we
will be opening a bottle of Bubbly as we are definetely over half way now - less
than 1350 miles to go - we have definetely sailed further, but 1350 is half of
the official rum line course.....
Being over
half way is a wonderful feeling. We are quite comfortable, but we are all
very much looking forward to that Rum Punch which we know awaits us in St
Lucia..
It is
great to be doing this Atlantic crossing, but it will much greater to have done
it!!!!
There are
so many things which can go wrong and we have now as a precaution filled up all
our empty bottles of mineral water with watermaker water just in
case..
Katrin |