Spindrift ARC Log - Day 12
Austins' Travels
Chris & Lynn Austin
Thu 1 Dec 2011 16:51
If we keep up our progress we will arrive after about 21 days - 10 days from now. In fact at our current rate we will be there even earlier - but its a long way and
dependent on the trade winds continuing reliably.
Overnight we had stronger winds gusting up to 30 knots and had to reduce sail slightly but have been running at about 7 knots for most of last night and today sometimes up to 9 knots.
We saw one yacht today - they were sailing faster than us but without the poled out downwind rig they have to zig-zag to go directly west whereas we are able to sail a direct course.
The half way celebration is today so we have all had showers and are awaiting the dinner with excitement. Ken has been cooking this afternoon and has prepared:
Egg & prawn mayonnaise to start, followed by chicken, sautéed with apricots mushrooms onion brandy and rosemary, then home baked cake washed down with red wine, white wine and brandy to finish.
We have two fish in the fridge so we haven't been fishing today. Only the essential tasks were completed today so it has been a bit of a day off - as far as that is possible on board a yacht in the middle of the Atlantic!