Restless Atlantic Report 3
Restless of Auckland
Roland and Consie Lennox-King
Tue 15 May 2007 16:28
Hello again from
Restless!
Just a quick email as nothing much happens out here
and it's only been a day since our last email!
Just a quick email as nothing much happens out here
and it's only been a day since your last email!
We're currently at 35"54'N and 55"08'' West.
We have 20-25 knots of wind, 4-6 foot swell, currently a reefed main and have
had about 8-9 knots of speed for the last 24 hours. So making some good
progress.
All is well on board and not much to see except
white caps and clouds. We did get paid a visit by a pod of about 20 miniature
dolphins at dawn this morning... the smallest must only have been the size
of a 1.5L coke bottle and the biggest wouldn't have been bigger than a dive
bottle. Was pretty crazy, but they didn't stay with us long before disappearing.
No more action on the fishing front as yet but
we're still positive.
OK,
well gotta get off the computer now as we're calling Herb for our daily forecast
and the power interferes with the signal.
We just had a little excitement ! James steering as Roland was waiting for Herb on the SSB and it
started pouring and wind got up to
about 25 knots and sea about 6-8 feet so quite fun...then Gilbert came out in his boxers
to have a shower in the rain and before
he finished we were hit by a front
that we had been expecting for some time... the wind changed 90
degrees in about a second and got up to 40 knots. We crash jibed, blowing
the splices in the runner and the track sheet. Roland came up on deck and we managed to reef
the already reefed main and pull the gib in.... was pretty
exciting.. then James steered in 35ish knots for the next
hour getting soaked until it died off and was under control.
Thats all for
now,
Love from the crew of Restless .