Blog 27th November
Nightsong
Fri 27 Nov 2009 12:13
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Dear Blog
Well at last I am getting the crew interested in
vino - as the attached photo shows. Or at least leading the way - we did drink
2.5 bottles yesterday!
 A better day in the last 24 hrs averaging nearly
7knots. Would have been more except we seem to be cursed with sail tares. While
trying to raise the small 140sqm gennaker yesterday afteroon, we failed to
notice a small tear which quickly became a 10m tear in many directions. Alas I
only have 13.5m of spinnaker repair tape on board and this wasn't enough since
you need to do it both sides of the sail. The sailmaker in St Lucia is going to
be busy!! Still we still have the big gennaker and the Code0 which we put up
instead and which we carried for 15hrs.
The winds have really blessed us in terms of
strength and direction, NE4-7 all the time! So now we can look at the St Lucia
waypoint and see it is <2000 miles away, we having sailed 800 miles in 5
days. Halfway in < 4 days we hope. The strange thing is that although it was
rough for the 1st 36hrs close to the Canaries, the seas/swell now are very
small - seen bigger in the North Sea and certainly in
Scotland.
Food is lasting well except the fruit of which the
pears and some oranges have gone mouldy. We haven't had the same evening meal
twice yet - and we are starting to have dinner later every
day, 7pm last night (still light) and 8pm
soon. We have changed the watch rota by 1 hr backwards too.
Nobody had fallen overboard or scalded themselves
and Boas only has 4 plasters on! To save the sails from blood, Sarah, not
deep!
PS Will be trying out the cardboard sextant today Iain! Thanks for a great presnet AJB 27/11/09
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