Force 9 to Force nothing

Shalan
Sat 10 Jun 2017 09:40

Position: 37:52N 037:09W
COG: 090
Trip: 1507
DTD: 1521

Morning readers, 0630 here. Brownwater and myself on deck at the mo. We had good sailing yesterday with 16 knots of NW winds with good tunes combined (a selection of Mr Scruff, Jamie XX, SBTRKT and more if you're interested!). We were flying in the early stage of the night and with a full moon, calm seas, full sail and boom out rocking along at 10 knots....it was pretty ace. The wind dropped around 0400 and since then we've tried a combination of all sails to keep us moving. We've got 7 knots of North wind at the moment and doing 5 knots SOG so we're giving up and going to do a bit of motor sailing to keep the distance coming down. We've also got some clunking noise coming from the forestay when the genoa is fully unfurled. It doesn't do it when there is half a turn on the furl which is strange and we can't pin point where its coming from. Will have to investigate the furling mechanism when we get to Gib. We also noticed while investivating that the teak on the stainless pulpit was about to go over the side. Water must have got between the stainless and the silicone, so we've removed that and stuck it in the locker also.

Not really much else has occured really. oh yeah fishing. No fish, we had the rods out all day and when our lonesome Captain Hook finally took a bite, the blighty ran off with the lure...so that's a rod and two lures gone making that 3-1 to the fish.

So that's it for now. We're about 400 miles off the Azores so a sailby should occur in two days.

Pic of the day...the ice-trucker doing some helm time

Shalan out