Monday 26 Nivember 2018
Kelpie
Sarah and David Holtby
Mon 26 Nov 2018 17:03
So now we are in the true trade winds and after all the complicated sail plans we tried over the weeks since leaving Southampton it seems a simple genoa, no pole, no main bowls us along at 6 knots without any nasty graunching noises or uncomfortable motion. So thats how we are doing this at the moment.
After yesterday's exciting start we found a full gale blowing in the acceleration zone between Sao Vicente and Sao Antao so we had an exhilarating sail through that. At last light, on exiting the acceleration zone, we dropped into the wind shadow of Sao Antao where there was no wind at all so we motored for 4 hours to escape it. Then we found the trade wind and have been enjoying it since. At the same time as we lost the wind, Chris caught another fish - a really really ugly one - It was about a metre long but no thicker than my wrist, had huge eyes and a set of seriously vicious teeth. Chris chucked him back but not before Andrew took his photo which we will upload when we get to SVG.
We have just had the leaderboard by email from the ARC - it seems we are lying second in the mono-hulls class - Good oh!
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