HAPPY NEW TEAR

Inga
Thu 1 Jan 2015 01:56
16N
32 34W
 
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
 
Those of you in the UK will have seen the new year in by now with the parties and celebrations. Ours is not for another  20 mins though I may still be writing this then, as we have put our clocks bact because of our passage west. No real celebration here with just me on watch. Plan to phone home tomorrow.
Inga is really sailing herself as we have had another day of not needing to adjust the sails apart from preventing chafe. George ( the windpilot wind vane steering) is doing a marvelous job of keeping us on course. Even better than the autopilot as he somhow copes with the swell better. Still a bumpy day ast times but we seem to be copingf with it more easily now.
Tin got out the fishing rod today and within minutes had a bite and caught and brought aboard a fish. Hopes of fresg fish for dinner were lost as it was too small and put back. No futher luck but he will try again tomorrow.
Decided to have a closer look at the watermaker leak and took the cover off, found the offending pipe and stopped it leaking. Now gets a higher pressure and makes water more quickly - so success.