30:35.4 N 63:04.6 W

Sula Sula III
Mark
Sat 17 Jun 2023 18:04
What a difference 24hrs can make! In 48 hrs to this morning's X on the chart we had sailed a total of 148 miles and had a bit of a reminder to boot. But as dawn broke, the wind started to pick up and by 08.00 hrs we had 10-14 knots and by midday (the time of writing) we have 18-25 knots 140° off the starboard quarter. We have averaged nearly 7 in the first four hours of the new day.....Short break to reduce sail...some of the gusts are now quite punchy.
Some of you may recognize the sail configuration; looks like we will have a couple of days like this.....reminder to self as seas build I need to keep checking the oil to see if any seawater is getting in as I didn't fit a non return valve on the exhaust in the end as no one believed it could have got in over the anti- syphon loop.
In other news, my phone (which was old when I left blighty) decided enough was enough last night; I was using the torch facility with the phone balanced on the aft of the cockpit combing to roll a cigarette and with a more energetic roll from Sula the phone slipped onto the aft deck and slid gracefully to the toe-rail with sufficient energy to be able to flip over it and into the blue abyss. With a calm sea, and a bright light flashing as the phone span down, her end was indeed a beautiful one that I could watch for a couple of hundred metres. I recon the will be a bit of a challenge for Apple's "Find My Phone" facility....?

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