Across the Pond - Day 8

Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Wed 25 Nov 2009 09:00

20:49.675N 31:09.332W



Tuesday 24th November


We've now been at sea for 1 week out of a possible 21 days! The last few days haven't been pleasant at all and we're all getting pretty fed up with the sea now, so Paul and Paul are at this very moment trying to find us a way out of it. From the daily roll call we are able to find out what the sailing conditions are like for the other rally boats so their studying the other boats positions and weather and we might try a more southern route.

It wasn't Paul's day yesterday. In the afternoon one of the 5 metre high waves broke over the side of the boat at the cockpit and soaked him and Amy. Then during the night while him and Amy were on watch the boat was rolling from side to side because of the waves crashing into us all the time, sometimes they are more aggressive than others. Anyway, Paul was sleeping in the cockpit when the boat suddenly rolled from the starboard side to port and he was launched from his sleeping position causing him to bang his head on the fibre glass and fall down to the floor. It was really quite a bang and he was seeing stars for a while. You'd have thought he'd have learnt as the same thing happened to Amy the other day and she's bruised all her knee. We're wearing our life jackets and harnesses all throughout the day and night at the moment so there was no danger of him falling off the boat. But we've now started to attach ourselves to the winch as well as being harnessed on if we are going to sleep up in the cockpit, so that we can't move at all.

One of the other boats in the rally, Bali Blue, who I mentioned the other day, when they bent their whisker pole, has had another problem. They've managed to fix the pole but have now damaged their mainsail so now they are only able to use their front sail. Two very unfortunate accidents.

Still 1758 miles to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 


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