Crossing Tropic of Cancer
The Travels of Running Tide
Mick Norman
Sun 3 Feb 2013 12:48
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22:44.01N 19:46.791W
Frisky sums up the weather over the last 24 hrs. We
are down to a reduced head sail and a mizen and clocking up an easy 6kns. We
have had our problems. Water ingress again.High energy water finds every chink
in RT 's armour. A lot of water entered the rudder gear compartrment and was
slopping into the rear cabin. So far we have stuffed a plug in the gas vent, not
ideal and rescrewed down a ventilator. This seems to have solved most of the
problem. Water is getting into the main bilge from somewhere but not such a
major problem yet. Every is one surviving well though we are being thrown arond
quite a bit today.
Monica misbehaved int he nice causing a couple of
involuntary jibes. With jibe preventor on we ended up in a sort of hove to
unable to easily get out of the mess without using the engine. This means
retreiving the squid lest we end up with it in the prop. So quite a busy night
and not much sleep. A tightening of Monice's control lines has sorted that
problem for now.
We were so nackered we missed the crossing of
Cancer by three miles this morning. I think we will celebrate that event this
evening with a drop of the hard stuff.
Total distance run since leaving Las Palmas is 402
miles in three days.
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