Course  300  

 

Speed 6.5 kts

 

 

 

New day same story.

 

25 - 30 knots blasting from the NE.  Seas are rough but a little more regimented which lulls us into thinking that we can predict the motion of the boat and then regularly catches us out.

 

An interesting set of night watches as we took turns to hang on and keep lookout from the main hatch.  Once you are in a bunk the movement of Sadie is amazingly smooth and it feels like we are drifting gently along.  The story from the cockpit is a bit different as you can see the 4 and 5 metre monsters surging up behind you and then hissing under the counter.

 

After some experimentation, our rig for these conditions is a well furled genoa, poled out to port with both uphaul and downhaul to lock the pole in place.  The boat moves really well and the self steering is completely in control, even as the waves are pushing us around by 30 degrees on occasion.

 

Domestic 

 

We are really in existance mode as it is too rough for much work or play.  We have tried reading but the combined effort of concentrating on the text and moving with the boat is too much and it is really tiring.

 

We have broken out some podcasts held on the laptop and are now listening to an old 5 live show on foreign ownership of Premier league clubs - much easier to handle.

 

Dave Smart - and anyone else who knows how.  We want to bottle some of our Tuna.  We have jars and a pressure cooker.  Instructions please in 160 characters or less. 

 

Natural History.

 

The seas here are alive with flying fish.  They are being spooked by Sadie as she passes and flocks (well, they are flying ) are skimming away as we pass. They can fly for about 70 metres in this wind, then hit the sea and bounce on for a further 30 metres.

 

 

 

Em - so you have spotted our "sticky K".  We have to hammer the key and sometimes forget to edit before sending.  We have developed letter blindness as we have got used to it.

 

 

Sadie