Day 3 Position Report 20 11.26 S 153 37.35W 1200FPT

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Sun 4 Mar 2012 23:54
I had a few issues with connecting the Sat phone to the laptop and thinking my way round the problem I have solved the problem by transferring the yacht Sim card to my Sat phone which is now connecting fine, I’m keen to try and get Ross and Anne’s phone a try later but for now I'm more than happy that communications have been  restored and I can let people know we are fine and that I can also get access to the weather.
 
There is a pattern to the wind over the last couple of days, pretty much its been off and on for a day and a half and from about Midnight last night we have been sailing and at the moment we are travelling at about 6.knots average and covered 150 nms over the last 24hrs.
 
We are all getting into the swing of things and the weather is promising for a reasonable straight forward trip back!!! famous last words.
deck la
I noticed that the stitching has come undone on the foot of the genoa where the plug cord lives, I’ll try and drop it on the deck later and either patch it with sail cloth or tape it. For the time being its not in any danger of getting worse or ripping anywhere so I will leave it alone.
 
Apart from that all is well and the humidity is getting less so it’s a bit more comfortable on deck even though its 32C.
 
From  Jess, Ashley and Mark