Day 3 SY Magic Roundabout position 31:00.177S 172:37.805E
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Wed 5 May 2010 22:32
Position time 1800NZT
Well the story last night was there was practically
no wind so both watches ended up spending the evening looking at the stars and
waiting for the shift to end! The only highlight of the evening was the
Chilli I made and lets just say if you werent quick you could of
missed out. it's a sad state of affairs when the only thing of interest in the
whole day is food!
Things weren't too different on the early shift
either it just started to get some reasonable
wind as I came off watch, bloody typical really.
After that however, things did start to warm up,
over the morning the wind built and built until we had 20knts on the beam and an
ackward sea way, which when combined with a 34fter full to the brim with gear
doesn't make for comfortable sailing.
We must have changed up and down the gears several
times in an effort to keep our little lady sailing smoothly. In fact I know that
I have had a lot easier races in the harbour.
With the current forecast staying around for the
next couple of days we should of broken the back of the trip by Friday and if
all goes could be in late Monday or early Tuesday, we will
see.
Cheers
Mark
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