English diary

Shiraz Atlantic Voyage 2009
Tomas Bartosz
Thu 28 May 2009 12:52
    Hello everyone.
 
Here we are with a new record for nautical miles over 24 hours.
203,5 the last 24 hours.
That is very good concerning we are sailing on two reefs in the main staysail and mizzen.
I´m happy anyway.  :-)
 
All is well with us and we are just sailing along so peacefull and calm as we can.
We are, asyou can see on the map, trying to adopt to the winds as much as we can and use them to get a good angle coming in over shallow waters below England.
 
As I think I mentioned before the waves can get very choppy if you go north up west of Bretange/France and in to the chanel that way.
Better be out and enter more from the west where the seas are said to be calmer.
 
Sun is still shining on us and yesterday we got a lot of things done.
I mended the biminitop that I steped through during my wild rodeo ride on the boom.
Once I was ready with the sewing the pad that i had prepared for putting on on the outside, blew away!
So I had to start over again. :-(
Onother hour of work getting the sides right and secure and the spraying it with rainprotection (?) fluid and having that dry.
While I was doing that Kalle cleaned the windows again. Lot of salt on them you see.
So now we can actually see through them again  :-D
 
If you want you can see some pictures in the swedish entry for today.
There you can also see that after a good days work we got a little treat.
A small Coronita and four tortilla chips.
Life is good !
 
Have a good one now all of you.
 
T & K