What a day!
ALICE'S ADVENTURES
ANDREW AND CELIA SHARPE
Wed 1 Dec 2010 11:19
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The crew have been pretty busy today.
The boat had to be hand steered most of the night
(Monday) and all morning while they tried to work out what was wrong with
the autohelm. We emailed Dave Beasley at Raymarine who once again was
brilliant with his very detailed and prompt response. Thank you
Dave. Then this afternoon Andrew emptied out the lazarette and our star
engineer Chris got to work. After a lot of adjustments and finally putting
on the old clutch drive unit we are back under way again. So we spent the
afternoon wallowing around fixing the problem, not doing any miles. All
working again so well done Chris. Much calmer and no wind
now!
Then when George was taking the fishing lines in he
found he had caught a fish. This was landed this time and made a delicious
supper for Celia, George and Roger. George is particularly
pleased as he spent some time this morning making a new lure (as the others had
been lost) out of the sellophane packet from some jaffa cakes. He is also
pleased that he beat Roger to landing a fish. Roger then filleted and
cooked it. Beautifully done - not a bone in it. Chris had one of the pork steaks that were planned for the
night's dinner but Andrew crashed out before dinner.
It was a quiet night so we did a single person watch and
everyone got a bit more sleep and we all fell more refreshed this morning.
Still very hot, cloudy and humid. This morning we decided that we had to
sail as we have to ration out the diesel. So we spent over an hour sorting
out bits of spaghetti rope and putting out the twin headsails. The wind is
finally behind us but very light and we are doing about 4 knots.
George was very pleased this morning to receive his
advent calendar as usual. We also opened the first door on the one
that Jenny gave us.
ALICE
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