Day 5 Thursday 9th Nov - RB Blog
Rich's 2025 World ARC PatBon Blog
Richard Hurd
Thu 9 Nov 2023 11:40
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19:47.99N 022:37.46W
Yesterday, Wed 8th Nov, we managed 184 NM in
total from midnight to midnight, which was 4 NM further than the day
before and 11 NM further than Tuesday's tally, so we're fairly pleased. We are
currently on a heading of 225 deg which, if the wind remains the same, gives us
a decent chance of reaching the finish line without putting in another jibe.
However, the forecast is showing that the winds will die from the mid 20 kts to
low to mid teens tomorrow, so our progress will be slowed sadly.
The sea has been really rolly with large waves picking
RB up from the stern and rolling her about. It makes standing and even sitting
down a challenge and everything is sliding around the cabin. On the HF radio net
this morning many boats reported the same conditions, so you feel for the
smaller ones in the fleet! We're still just flying the large genoa without a
main, so we can run downwind as deep as we can without the spinnaker pole.
Hopefully DB will have the replacement part when he joins us in Cape
Verde.
Life on board has settled down into 2 hour, single
person watch routines which roll through the 24 hrs. Dinner last night was
a lovely fish pie courtesy of Mark. Sadly the fish was bought from the
supermarket in Las Palmas and not caught! Only one fish landed to date and that
went back in as it was "only a wee snackette" according to Nick. However the
decks were strewn with flying fish this morning - 20 by Nick's reckoning,
so RB is clearly attractive to fish, just not our lures sadly.
We have 218 NM to go, so hopefully a day and a
bit....... but that depends on the wind of course.
RB Out.
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