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The Snark on The ARC
Ben Little
Sun 22 May 2011 19:03
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Hi folks,
hope all are well logging in from Blighty and those
behind or in front of us in the Atlantic are experiencing fair
wind.
After our excitement yesterday morning with fair
winds and 8+ knots of boat speed for most of the day, we were somewhat
downhearted when we started losing speed around dinner time. During the
night it was slow going and dawn had us putting the last of our reserve fuel
into the tanks and cranking the engine again and heading on to the zone on
the Grib forecasting wind. The good news is that after only 2 hours
we found it again. It is a bit on and off but we are currently
making 7 knots toward Horta. I think the wind has had its' fun with us now
and ought to be prepared to behave. Or maybe the WW had a
hangover after a big Saturday night and lapsed after finally bringing us
wind.
If the wind does die we
have probably enough fuel at low revs to motor ourselves home.
With any luck we will get enough wind and it will not be a problem. I
know I am running on a bit about the weather but I guess I am a bit
obsessed at the moment with our speed and when we will get to Horta
finally. We now have a
sweepstake going and it looks like Chris, who has the Thursday
morning or later slot has the best chance to collect. I have the
other end of the spectrum with a Tuesday night arrival (assumes steaming along
at 8knots). The good news is that we won't run out of food, though a
very light gas bottle means that tea is off the agenda, though someone had a cup
this AM (using the hot tap I assume).
Last night we had a Saturday night pub
quiz (without the beer) our combined score was a miserable 5 out of 10,
thanks to Julie for the questions... and answers. I have omitted the
individual scores to hide our embarrassment, needless to say no-one got 5.
Anyway it was a bit of distraction and
fun.
The Dolphins are still with us and the jelly fish
thankfully not (or at least I did not see one today), however we have now
come to the conclusion that the Dolphins are either eating or scaring off all
the fish. Not a single one so far on the trip, I find a fish free Atlantic
very surprising given the number of bites we had last time across.
Bye for now dinner time beckons
Ben and the Crew of The Snark
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