Another day of drama at sea ............
Cafeseerose
Tue 24 Nov 2009 16:55
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21.02 n 22.30 w
Speed 5.7 kts
swell 3-4 m
Hot and sunny
distance 143 miles
Wind speed 20 kts from n.e
wildlife 1 fish caught then thown back
in
After dolphins in the dark last night and a good
nights sleep my watch was 5 am till 8am the best one.
We had the genoa halyard break ,luckily
we had a spare fitted by myself and mike in cepahlonia in the summer so were
well prepared.
We turned to wind dropped the genoa attached the
new halyard and were away within 30 mins.
This leaves us with only the spinnaker halyard as
spare for the head sail so dicussion ensued this afternoon whether to go into
cape verdes and rethread the halyard or continue as is.
As of this moment my feeling is to carry on ,as the
halyard we used is brand new with no wear at all .
We need to decide by midday tommorrow if we did go
in it would add 2 days 300 miles to our trip.
We will see tommorrow what does our readers think
?
Lunch today was chilli con carne coooked by greg
and very nice to and a new batch of bread was baked mmm.
I did some excersising on deck for 40 mins,and we
made the very bold move of advancing our clocks 1 hour.
Progress is good and the swell is nowq quite far
apart meaning a more comfortable ride.
Bye for now
Mark ,Mike,Greg and Jan
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