Day 3. 22:46N 20:17W
MALARKEY
Jo & Trevor Bush
Fri 22 Dec 2006 18:30
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Got the boat going pretty well now. A poled out
stay sail and a poled out genoa works well downwind and is easily controllable
from the cockpit. Just as well bearing in mind the amount of times reefs have
been put in and shaken out. The wind has been quite strong gusting over 30 kts
and the sea is big with a cross swell - not conjucive with comfortable sailing.
We are now deep reefed to slow the boat otherwise a mutiny would be on the
cards.
Shaun spat the dummy 'cos it took him three
attempts just to make a mug of tea. One went over his hand (a few choice words
were uttered) and the other went down the sink before he even took one sip (even
more choice words uttered). Jo has spent most of the last 2 days in the
scratcher looking pretty miserable. She asked for a cracker. We thought she
meant a Xmas cracker to cheer her up. So we pulled a Xmas cracker and
put the hat on her head. What she really wanted was a Jacobs Cream Cracker
to help her unsettled tum. This made the rest of us fall around in fits of
laughter.
 The whole day cheered up after that event. The
weather is even due to moderate shortly and the boat is much steadier with the
current sail pattern. Things are looking brighter!
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