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Sulayacht
Sat 4 Dec 2010 18:10
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Friday 3rd December day 12
Just to give you all an update as we are unable to
access blogger.com, and some of you following us on www.worldcruising.com/arc (fleet
positions) will be beginning to wonder if we have gone 'troppo'.
This seasons trade winds are not set in as yet so
the ARC fleet of 238 boats set sail from Las Palmas on 21st November in all
directions. The racers took the Northern route and have had gales and
headwinds, we took the extreme southern route down to the Cap Verde Islands and
called in at Santiago for fuel on Wednesday, left at 20.00hrs and had favourable
winds for the first time.
Sea temperature is 31 degrees and the boat
temperature even hotter! Lots of flying fish and dolphins, our fish catch
is now one mackerel and one pretty coloured thing that tasted nice baked with
lime, no other boats in sight. Water maker has been put into
commission and is working well as is everything else apart from computer which
doesn't like the heat. We can access email on sulayacht {CHANGE TO AT} mailasail {DOT} com which is a
server that compresses text mail into a quick download speed (I do understand
when I read the literature, S) if you are using it please do not send
any photo's, so if anyone has sent us anything via
rya-online.net we will not get it until landfall. Likewise neither of our
phones will relay voicemail but do take text when we are ashore.
Now having got this far we are going to try
and fill in a daily diary with our positions and news this should be accessible
at http://blog.mailasail.com/sulayacht We
will try and upload the odd photo (like us swimming behind Quicksilver 80 miles
of the coast of Africa!) so please bear with us.
Thank you all for your good wishes for this part of
the journey,
Love Chris & Sharon
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