Day 2-3

Tomogilvie
Tue 24 Nov 2015 17:42

400 miles now completed.  Qing is keeping up a fantastic pace, day and night.  We had a little slow-down last night going through the Canaries wind shadow but not for long.  Settled into a 2 hours on, 6 off watch keeping pattern. 2hrs is about right. 

Weather's still good apart from the occasional short lived squall and we're heading pretty well downwind most of the time as forecast.  Goose-wing sails with preventer on main and pole-out on Genoa.  Quinn's very stable.  Proper little ship!

Saw a pod of dolphins this morning (sort - no pics) and Tristan caught (almost) a yellow-fin tuna.  Sadly it got away because we couldn't slow the boat enough quickly enough to land it. So no sushi tonight.

Still some queasy tummies, but we're all getting used it it and carrying on.  

Many thanks to everyone for your emails.  Sorry I can't send individual replies until later...

Love to you all...

 

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