Spare halyard - anyone?

Pelekan
Tom & Jos Hollway
Tue 4 May 2010 19:06
23:44N  64:51W
Hi. Great sailing day yesterday. All feeling good by the evening after pill popping by 3 of us  and Chris sporting a patch behind his ear like a misplaced earing. No mal der mer today - eating like horses. The wind has dropped  to the extent that the three sailors had an urge to  fly the cruising chute again. 2 hrs of toil attaching it to the spare halyard, 20 minutes of cruising chute up, snapped, cruising chute down  over the side again and now back in it's bag where it belongs. Tom, Chris and James very disappointed after so much effort, (my contribution was to press an electric winch).
The fishing rod has been deployed. 15 minutes later much excitement -" Fish on the line!" from Tom. He reeled a moderate sized chunk of seaweed into the boat which we released back to the wild .
Lots of love to all from
Three Men in a Boat and Me.