Slow Sunday
Kirofbrixham
Mon 15 Dec 2008 03:03
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Another day of slow progress punctuated by snacking
on boat cooked brownies. Yet another use for the boatie frypan which doubles
nicely as a non stick baking tray in the oven.
We have just put one of our 2 reserve diesel
containers into the tank and had another look at diesel and electricity
consumption with the result that the fridge is now off (there was only cheese
left that was fresh anyway), the water maker is now off (we should have enough
to get us there) and other use is being minimised. Hopefully we can now minimise
running the engine to charge the batteries and only run when we want motive
power. 400 miles to go and we are still in the situation where we need a couple
of good days wind to put us in a good position to motor the rest of the way if
we need to.
Listening to the radio today one of the other boats
was arranging a rendez vous to swap gas, diesel, wine beer and food with
others one due to having run out of food diesel and gas and the other getting
short of beer etc. we could have given them tea bags!
Now going better and doing 5kts plus under another
moonlit sky, hopefully the wind holds all night and into
tomorrow.
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