Day 3 - Trans-Atlantic
Magic Friday
Phil, Di and Annelise
Tue 21 Feb 2012 18:12
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25:44.4N
22:25.5W
And Monday night dinner was good! Not an uneventful
night this time as the auto-pilot drive motor fuse blew and caused an
unexpected gybe (but with boom preventer on) - no major issue and repaired at
first light. Noon day sightings taken with sextant - although positional
calculations still to be tackled! Ran the watermaker today which works well
and has a compressor run directly off the main engine, thereby we can
make water at the same time as charging the batteries. Boat sailing
perferctly - noon day run 172nm (straight line) - average >7knots -
another 2,300nm to go! Logged 200nm (ave >8knots) with genoa poled and
goosewinged. This trip is proving that this boat is very easy to sail
quickly short-handed. We received a grib file to check the weather today and it
shows an area of light winds maybe 48 hours ahead. Therefore we have Gybed to go
south a bit in the hope that we can miss them or at least put us in a better
position to use them more favourably. Movie night tonight (Qunatum of
Solace) after dinner......
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