Still grinding to windward Veg report 39 48.6N: 46 17.6W Sailed 2030 miles with another 1125 to Newport
Ellatrout3
Sat 7 Jun 2014 19:15
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Saturday 7th June
Yes still trying to get south of the iceberg area
with the wind resisting all the way. Currently the wind is howling in the
rigging, we have three reefs inthe mainsail and a half rolled No 3 jib and
the wind is coming straight from the SE corner of the berg area which I am
trying to get round. I have marked that position Ice 2 on my chart. On the 2nd
June I reached the edge of the iceberg area and Ice 2 was 200 miles tro the
south of me. I have already sail 300 miles since then and I'm still 30 miles
away. All being well I should get round that point some time Sunday, six
days to achieve 200 miles, at this rate I'll not gwet to Newport till
christmas!!!
At the moment I'm hal f way through an Ella Trout
hash - Tin of corned beef, tin of butter beans, tin of mixed veg, half a tin of
tomato and basil soup left over from yesterday and a packet of Uncle
Bens rice. Very tasty,quick and
easy, makes three or four meals.
I ate my last orange today, I've six apples left
and I've finished my first cabbage (2nd cabbage looks ok) - all good. The
carrots were poor, rotted in a few days and the parsnips also went mouldy
quickly and were very bitter. Potatos and sweet potatos, still got some
all good. Don't think I'll lose weight this trip even though it will take
quite a bit longer
Love Poppa/Dad/Roger
Ps Iridian have an outage!! this weekend so very
weak signal, couldn't transmittill now.
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