It was all going so well...
Littlepea
Sun 22 Jul 2012 11:01
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43:59.49N 08:56.02W
Yesterday initally felt like a dream trip across
Biscay: As the wind started to lightly fill from the North East, our G1 pushed
us along at a modest 6kts. There'd been a yacht chasing us down the bay for a
couple of days now and we were proud they they weren't making any ground, even
though they look bigger than us. However, disaster struck at sunset when in only
9kts of breeze the Spini halyard snapped sending the G1 into the drink. We
managed to recover the sail pretty quickly with out any further damage and
unfurled our Genoa as a substitute sail. Over night the wind (as predicted)
built to a steady 16kts propelling us over 8kts over the ground. This
meant, even though our rival yacht kept their spiniker flying, they were unable
to make sufficient enough speed to pass us in the dark. As I type, we are still
under main and genoa and hurtling down towards Cape Finisterre whilst our rivals
our about half a mile behind are struggling under the building conditions to
keep their yacht under control with so much sail up. We're expecting this
evening to be quite breezy as it looks like we have textbook conditions to
activate the Finisterre acceleration zone. We might be in for a bumpy
ride!
Mike
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