Island Kea II - 3rd Day at sea
Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Tue 27 Nov 2007 09:44
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Position as at 9am UTC 27th of
November
24:57.18N
18:11.43W
Currently
doing 6.1 kts with head sail poled out and main with a preventer in a
goosewing
We have
now had two night at sea. The first night I did not get much sleep and as
a result did not feel too good yesterday. Not able to keep any food
down. I know I could do with loosing a bit of weight, but this is
ridiculous. I feel much better today after a really good night
sleep. We are now doing 3 hour watches at night, one person at a time so
this should enable us to get reasonable amount of sleep. The first night
we were steering by hand but last night we had the autopiolot running, which
makes it a lot easier. I am really pleased that both our crew, Tom and
Caroline do not seem to be affected by sea sickenss at all. We have seen
dolphins on both afternoons, the first day about 6.20pm and yesterday a bit
earlier about 5pm. We seem to be on their plans for an afternoon
visit. We got a couple of pictures, not very good but at least more than
just sea..
I think we
are planning to test the Parasailor today so we will see how much difference
that will make to our speed - Katrin
Making
slightly slower progress than planned up to now, despite hitting 11 knots
surfing off the large ocean swell in a F7 south of Gran Canaria. The ARC
fleet are mostly north and west of us but we are now in good Trade Winds and are
aiming to be positioned to cross South of the expected Low maintaining best
speed. My main concern is that we are eating so much that I will put on
weight rather than losing it.
Aim to get
the Parasailor up now that we are mostly going downwind and it is a
beautiful day; yesterday we ( the yacht that is) were reaching quite a
lot ( actually someone I will not name was retching a bit as well but I
won't bring that up!).We should speed up today- Steve
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