day 41
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49:48.700n
09:26.700w Distance to home:
408 miles Distance run
today: 106 miles Course
095 A good day after things
going bump in the night. Domestic Yesterday’s potential for
disaster (once the bigger issue with the bog had been resolved) was the lack of
gas pressure at the stove. We
started rationing it’s use so tea and coffee were off the menu for a while as
the obvious conclusion was that we were running out of
gas.. Eventually we got round
to checking the cylinder which is lashed on the stern of the boat and difficult
to get at. It was still half full
so the crisis was over and taking the regulator off / putting it back has
removed whatever blockage there was. Tea (for now, as we are
short on tea bags) and coffee are back on the menu. Sailing We used the spinnaker set
on a strop at the bow and sheeted hard like a gennaker all day and half of the
night. It worked well but by
Tim was hand steering in
the cockpit so set to hauling it in and following his shout, Jez and Will piled
on deck from bed dressed in underpants and a lifejacket to help the recovery and
set the genoa in it’s place. We are going to miss
being shouted at to get up from a deep sleep at a moments notice to work in a
cold, wet, hostile environment once we get home. But right now it seems really
appealing. The timing was right and
we have been making good time to a decent southerly breeze under full main and
Natural
History Another big pod of Pilot
whales were alongside yesterday evening and we are awash with
gannets. New bird last night’ Looks like a Wood Pigeon with legs and
feet trailing behind it and an odd tail with an extra wedge of feathers after
the normal fan. Dave S
? Today’s
Responses Gran – Thanks for the
update – we have wind Dave S – Thanks re boats
and glad you have some natural history of your own
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