Going Well
'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Sat 17 Jan 2009 15:25
14:24.832N 53:31.254W
Noon position 17/01. Daily run 137.2nm 310 nm to go
to Barbados.
A peaceful night last night, just the odd light
shower but no squalls, electrical storms or kamikaze flying fish. Got the
gennaker out this morning as everybody is feeling reasonably well rested, just
watching the furling gear gradually chomp its way through another part of the
furling line. For any BB owners reading this, the lead on the gennaker furling
line is rubbish, it keeps fouling on the vertical spines on the furling drum,
which I think are there to prevent a riding turn. As they don't do this very
well, the proposal is to cut off the vertical spine which is doing all the
damage (once we are in Barbados), file it s.mooth and apply hammerite. Any
comments from anybody?
All going well, warm with mainly blue skies and a
reasonable forecast for the rest of the trip. Spoke to Moonshiner at 1900 UTC
last night, they had 190nm to go and all was well. They could be in early Sunday
morning and with a little luck we should be in Monday late afternoon local time,
which is four hours behind UK time.
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