Sunday 22nd, Morning report 16 10.131N 43 44.853W
Persephone... Cruiser/Racer
Nigel & Karen Goodhew...
Sun 22 Jan 2017 09:45
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A little later than usual, this report, as I have
been having a well deserved lie in. I say well deserved, but it was due to quite
a lot of sailing action in the early hours.
We had a slow day yesterday, and as it was light
wind, decided to keep the kite flying overnight. That went well enough during
supper and even through a couple of hours of our regular film night.
Around midnight, we went on deck to take a look at things, and witnessed "the
shift". My head said gybe, and then lifejacket/harness, and while I was
donning these bits of kit, we suffered the kite wrap from hell.
It was nearly 3 by the time we had sorted that
little mess out....we even had to drop the main in the process and I never want
to be mid Atlantic, in the pitch black, unwrapping a kite from the forestay
again.
We gybed at first light, about 0930 and are now
sailing under white sails straight at Barbados. So all has ended well. The
kite will go up again after breakfast...I don't think it got damaged in the
process, but we'll see.
927 miles to go. Computer says 29th January
arrival....next weekend!
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