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Top Secret
Feel The Magic Yacht Vacations
Thu 1 Jul 2010 20:46
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Our position: 36:51.88N
25:46.04W
Yesterday we went into the town of Horta to go find
a chandler and some supplies for the last leg of our trip. Rean found a
few items at a hardware store and later in the afternoon he found most of the
other items he needed from a very small chandlery. The town seemed
quite pleasant with not many shops. What was very interesting were the
paintings done by all the sailors over the years all along the marina walls and
walkways, apparently wishing for fair winds. Some were very
artistic.
We went back into town later the afternoon for some
lunch at Peter's Cafe Sport which we believe were the place to go and were voted
best pub/restaurant in the Azores. We are not quite sure why as we waited
for almost 2 hours for okay food. After lunch Rean went of to the chandler
whilst Matt and I bought the last of the supplies. Back at the boat the boys fixed engines and I cleaned out the
fridge.
We finally set sail around 8pm. I of course,
almost immediately felt sick again so I staid outside as long as possible before
going to bed. This morning I'm happy to report I am fine again, like Matt
says, I'm strong like Russia. We got a lot of wind last night and the guys
were averaging around 12 knots. At 5am this morning I heard a commotion
outside - another sail tore, the big spinnaker. Luckily we have two of
those. The sailmakers are going to love us! It is Rean... he
got so exited about the first little bit of wind in a few weeks, he goes and
tears another sail. This one was his fault, the sail should have come down or
been let out a bit at those apparent wind speeds. He was really upset, as
he liked the sail, as it set so well.
At the moment the wind has died down substantially
and we're getting around 6.5 knots. We've got the other spinnaker out and
all seems well so far. This one is a bit bigger than the one that tore, so if we
are going to head directly downwind, then it should give us a little extra
speed.... maybe 0.0125 knots
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