17th June 33 59.000N 48 48.581W
Persephone... Cruiser/Racer
Nigel & Karen Goodhew...
Sat 17 Jun 2017 17:18
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Well the wind arrived yesterday. To start with it
was a lovely gentle breeze on port tack and Persephone responded, moving quickly
from a trickle to about 6 knots. Yesterday aternoon the wind built ad clocked
right and by dusk, we had 17 knots, had slabbed in first one reef, then 2, and
had changed down to the valiant No 3 headsail.
The night was black, the moon now rising after
midnight, and the sea state built and built.
I have been in full oilies for the first time since
we crossed Biscay last June. The waves are quite simply huge!
Persephone has the tiniest scraps of sail up yet we
are still going too fast and fall ff some of the bigger ones with heart stopping
cacophony inside. The shaking seems to have disturbed the windows as each one of
them now leaks.
Karen has completely lost her sense of humour and
has been crippled with seasickness. I have been dipping into the reserves of
freeze dried "Fastnet" food we have on board....
Tim tells us that the wind will go to the east
tomorow and as it is a feisty north east today...20 to 25 knots, we cannt point
P at the Azores and are way south of our rhumb line, so the shift tomorrow might
enable us to tack and come back...
There mst e something about us and this bit of the
Atlantic....we had a solid beat across here just over 4 years ago. Where ae
those seasonal westerly breezes?
Still, on the plus side, we have had an excellent
24 hour mileage run..141 miles.
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