Fw: Storyteller, Day 4
Storyteller
Sat 15 Mar 2008 14:36
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Position 06.24S 99.40SW
We've now covered 610 miles and only 2353
naautical miles (5200 km) to go! However, the good news is that
we seem to have found the trade winds and we are sailing comfortably in smooth
seas at 7+kts with our Parasailor spinnaker up. There are still a few rain
squalls around, which we are watching closely. Sue writes: We caught
another nice tuna yesterday only to find that our new freezer pump was
Kaput. However Jim and John came up with an ingenious solution which involved
cannabalising a bilge pump and rerouting it to cool the freezer.Meanwhile the
menu each day is determined by what is defrosting or about to go off. Makes menu
planning very simple, really.Meanwhile everyone is in good spirits now the trade
winds have come in, the Parasailor is working, and the freezer is back in
business. We have a morning radio talk with several other boats, which, because
of the number of kiwis around has been dubbed the 1Zb Women's Hour (it's mainly
men talking about fuel (lack of) and fish (apart from us, lack of). I'm making
extremely good progress on the cds of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, for which you need night watches on a long sea voyage (mine is
midnight to 3am, and the time races by)
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