First 24 hours we have had it all.
Lazydawn
Tue 22 Nov 2005 12:19
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The start went quite well we took the west end of
the line away from the may hem at the windward end of the line. We soon got
clean air and made good progress thought the fleet. Raised the Para sail (kite)
after 1 hour and slowly ran out of wind by 16.00. We could see a new wind line
approaching and decided not to motor for it as some of the big yachts around us
did. When it arrived we had loads of wind and in no time had put in all 3 reefs
and shortened the Genoa to 30%. All of us got soaked in salt water and needed to
put our oilies on for the night :o(
It was quite uncomfortable for around 8 hours until
the wind died down. Only the dolphins enjoyed the big seas as they jumped and
swam around the boat. During the night we had to shake out all the
reefs all quite hard work for our small crew. We find ourselves now in light
airs, bright sunshine as lunch time approaches. No fish on the lines yet so
it will be sandwiches.
VHF as been active as all our fellow crews find out
how we are all doing this will stop over the next 24 hours as we spread out
around the Atlantic. We have not yet used the engine and lets hope the wind
ensures this is not needed.
Only major breakage so far was the heads stopped
working and to Peter's relief it was fixed just in time to avoid a
situation!
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