Day 19, Antigua to Portsmouth
Telefonica Black
Lance Shepherd
Fri 1 May 2020 23:14
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48:29.30N
009:41.92W
The big blue expanse of a wind hole on a grib! Not what
you want to wake up to! 0 knots of
wind!
The wind hole slightly shifted overnight so we have
had to backtrack on our NE course for a bit to circumnavigate it as quickly
as we can and get back into some wind. That means as the VMG wise we have only
covered 100 miles today. Sad times!
The engine has been on all day, but its not the biggest
engine in the world so we have an average speed under engine of 4/5 knots! She
was built for sailing!
Hopefully by lunchtime tomorrow we will be back under
sail and heading to Portsmouth.
Big thanks to Connors mum for the lovely email, it
really made us smile and we will be doing the pub quiz tomorrow lunch time,
battle lines have been formed and the loosing watch gets the worst job for the
deep clean!
Martin, a good friend of Lances who keep his boat where
we will be berthing has also emailed with the news that the chippy is open in
Gossport......that raised a cheer on the boat and the topic of fish and chips
has dominated the conversation ALL DAY!
Are you a mushy peas, gravy, curry sauce or a chips,
cheese and coleslaw fan?
and finally a thank you to our Bas's mum and dad, they
have been sending the most wonderful and supportive text messages, much
appreciated.
Speak tomorrow and hopefully we will have been sailing,
smashed out 200 miles and will be in Portsmouth by Sunday! (more realistically
Monday/Tuesday at this rate!!!)
C x
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