Noon Position: 36 54.0 N 007 57.4 W
Course: East Speed: 2 knots
Wind: West, light air .
Weather: Sunny, warm
Day's Run: 70 miles
Another 24 hours of light airs averaging about 2 ½ knots, well at least we're
moving. The poor old mainsail was copping a bit of a flogging so I have
resorted to poling the jib out one side, and the drifter out the other, with
its sheet led through a block on the end of the boom to give it maximum area
and to stop it from chafing on the shrouds and spreader. I haven't used this
sail configuration for ages but then I haven't had a long bout of light
winds from astern for a long time either, not since crossing the South
Atlantic back in 2004 as I recall. It is wroking well.
I spent much of the morning repairing a broken mainsail batten and sewing in
a new cringle on the luff, and I have a bit more sewing to do yet while the
mainsail is down.
And I still haven't decided where we are going to stop next, it really is
very pleasant out here. A little place called Isla de Terifa looks like a
good spot where we can anchor in clean sand. It is just short of Gibraltar,
so I think we will continue on to there to await the replacement credit
card.
All is well.
Bob Cat:
It seems skipper Bob has fixed the stereo, all of a sudden he is playing
some music. He hasn't done that for a while. As long as he keeps it
soothing, a little Handel seems a good accompaniment to my vocation . . .
Zzzzzzz.
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