End day 4
Merlin
Kevin & Victoria Rolling
Sat 25 Jun 2011 13:23
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44 52n : 17 13w
A wonderful days sailing and good distance covered
- 171nm. We are still flying the spinnaker and hopefully will continue to do so
until this evening when the breeze is set to veer 60* -
90* over night to put us on a reach / beat (fast & comfortable / not so
fast & uncomfortable) to the finish with F3 (nice) winds most of the
way.
We have heard four friends on two other boats
have not been so fortunate and are returning to the Azores because
of serious problems (it could so easily have been us !) - power
failure (Equilibrium) and rudder bearing breakdown (Embla 3).
The latter is particularly difficult to deal with and I hope they make it
without loosing their wonderful boat where we spent some happy times during our
stay in the Azores. Graham and Roy, two young at heart 70 year olds, whom I
met on the last AZAB four years ago should have no problem getting back - very
unfortunate and hard work it will be though.
Time to catch up on some sleep I
think.....
K & M x
Merlin
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