Blog 21st May
Nightsong
Fri 21 May 2010 17:10
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Dear Blog
Noon position 34.30N 57.45W - note we have changed
time by 1 hour forward so noon tomorrow will be 1100hr old time - and we
will change by another 2 hours as we go east so that we are on GMT ( 1hr behind
UK) when we get to the Azores (which I think is local time)
A record run yesterday of 187 miles (about 7.8kts)
- edging ever closer to the 200mile day ambition - currently doing 9 knots in
a SSW force 4/5. We will lose this wind tomorrow night and have 2 or 3 days
of easterlies before the wind goes back to west with a vengeance about Tuesday
next week. We could have NW gales at some point as we skirt the southern edge of
an Atlantic low and approach Horta
Good old Duogen split its shaft and stopped
generating in the middle of the night - easy repair job with hacksaw, drill and
new pin this morning. Other than that all well - although we haven't tested the
engine except in neutral yet, to see if our flexible coupling connector
bolts/nuts will survive. Still we got the batteries back to 100% full this
morning and generated water for 2 hours - so nobody smells now!!
Still 1 yacht (on the ARC Europe) in sight and 2
more on the AIS so we are not lonely. Relaxed enough for David to get his
sextant out and take a midday sight. Tomorrow he will teach me to do it with my
sextant (thanks Perrings) -better to try it with an expert rather than reading
the book
 Simon still feeling sick, poor guy - can't
find the boat's wrist antisickness electric thingie - so will spend
more time searching later this pm. He won't take Stugeron
AJB
21st May
2010
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