During the squall  in which we damaged the Jennaker we also lost the Autopilot. The autopilot was saying we were heading East; our conclusion was that this happened either randomly when someone was pressing the buttons , or was down to a voltage drop which occurred at the same time. We were not able to recalibrate as the wind was too high , eventually by evening it lighten enough for us to do the two x 360 degree turns required to reset it. Unforntately this did not work. We tried for a few hours resetting different parameters but nothing fix it. We just about settled on the notion of having to manually helm 24x7 to St. Lucia when we solved the puzzel. The problem was down to a portable LED light (the kind you find in a petrol station) which was now hanging in a different place than normal. Unknowingly these nice little LED's  also had a small magnet at the back,  and this one was inconveinently placed near the fluxgate compass which was hidden inside the warddrobe. The magnet had inverted the the reading by 180.

 

On the subject of auto "Pilots", 3 pilots came along side last night. 

 

Overall position in our race fleet still  9th.

 

Still no fish., but Eric has got into making fresh bread.

 

 

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