A Cracking Sail
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Wed 4 Jul 2007 04:38
Position 44 00' N 18
12' W Just clear of the Northern most tip of Spain & 370 miles
West
We have just had the best
three consectative days sailing since we joined Sarah-Grace many weeks ago in
Mexico. We have covered 460 miles in the past 72Hrs with the wind mainly from
just aft the beam. At times we were consistantly doing over 7 Knots, very
exciting sailing, and great to be covering ground for a change. However it has
all come to a sudden and abrupt end and we are now crawling along at a much more
leisurely pace of 4 knots. What the burst of speed has done is start the
inevitable game of when will we get there ? The first guess went to our seasoned
skipper, Chris (who's never been close) of Monday 9th in the afternoon, Karen
(I've been right twice already) says Sunday 8th afternoon, while I, based on the
vast sailing experience of 3700 miles aboard have taken our average for all
those miles and come up with 15th of July!!! I just hope I'm wrong.
We are getting there
although this lowly pace makes it difficuilt to believe. There are signs that we
are getting close to Britain, firstly the weather is rubbish and much cooler,
secondly we can now get Radio 4 albeit intermittently. At least we know what The
Archers are upto !! The distance we have left to travel is about the same as the
road distance from Land's End to John O Groats, only the length of France and a
bit.
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