Getting in the zone
Fleck
Thu 31 May 2012 10:57
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Date Thursday, 31st May, 2012
Position 18:25.5E 17:20.7S
Strong winds blew through quickly, and now we have
20 kts plus: good passage winds, although still rather on the beam. Forecast to
hold up for a couple of days, then reduce a bit, but we may be able to hold the
tail of the system until Rodrigues. Losing all sense of time, which passes
efortlessly (at the start of an Ocean crossing, the days pass very slowly,
somehow you just settle down into it).I was going to do a long blog this
afternoon, but discvovered salt water in the computer locker. So have been
trailing water all afternoon, finding new puddles in unexpected places, with
spare parts etc stting in the water going quickly rusty. So now lots of empty
lockers, stuff piled up in the middle of the boat, and all quite difficult in a
seaway! Frustration is that I still havn't found out where it is coming from,
but late afternoon now, so too dark to see properly, and will have yet another
go tomorrow. Mercifully, for rummaging in the cabin, it has become noticeably
cooler. Soon I may have to start wearing clothes! Well, at least the
computer is still working, and a little warm up will perhaps dissipate some of
the damp in its elderly connections. Outside on deck, the sails and windvane are
doing a great job, touching wood as I speak! Saw one big ship last night, the
first for several days. News from home is that Hannah's exams are nearly over:
great! Pierre wants to know what dodgers and stugeron are. Dodgers are
bits of canvas around the cockpit to keep the spray of the faces of delicate
Englishmen. Stugeron is cinnarizine: to stop delicate Englishmen being sea
sick.
Cheers
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