Day 23 SY Forté position 33: 32.39S 155:06.7E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Thu 21 Apr 2011 00:46
1200NZT / 1000EST ~ Death by paparazzi.....or at least thatâs what it seemed!
 
Our evening started off relatively routine, I had cooked a Chilli and rice everybody was enjoying their food, everything cleared away and then a lighting storm surrounded us.
 
After about 4.5 hours of thunder storms and lighting coming from all around us (that looked like a thousand camera flashes going off!) we were finally released to carry on our way to the east coast.
We had what seemed like a 1.5 nms radius of black thunder clouds that were not moving too fast as they were been held up by a high pressure system further to our south and the light show was fantastic if not a tad worrying, especially when they got within a couple of hundred meters of us. We must of tacked what seemed like a dozen times trying to find our way out but every time we tried the low would suck all the air out and pull us in closer. In the  end we furled up the genoa and motored into the wind to a very small but only exit sign we could see, after 2.5 hrs we managed to break loose and we are now making reasonable progress to the east coast. After a lapse of an hour and half the lightening started again and continued

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