Monday 30th
Gwylan
Charles Manby
Mon 30 Nov 2009 21:02
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WE GYBED!!! Successfully with speed not
dropping below 7 knots and a smart pole change. Crew is coming along
nicely (even Otter is trying to keep up).
Otherwise winds have been lightish certainly last
night so we were a bit worried as to positions, Gwylan being a heavy boat, but
at 184 nm we just about held our own. We need more than 13 knots to go
with any speed and we have had quite a lot of 10/11. It appears as though
most of the fleet had the same.
The fishing rod has been out and, despite blue
plumes and a yellow widget, no success. We have tried Tom's simple set-up
which yielded so much success earlier we have had no success
either.
So it's iron rations. For lunch we had
gazpacho,. fresh ciabatta, grilled courgettes, tomato salad. Tea was fruit
cake of which we are likely to have an excess. Mum's DSG recipe "Braemar
fruit cake".
For dinner it's champagne to celebrate half way on
the miles, steak, chips and broccoli. It was meant to be tuna carpaccio
first, but fishing let us down.
I have learnt to read again! Up to c p 150 of
Robin Lane Fox's "The Classical World, From Homer to Hadrian". And I am
able to concentrate for more than 1 page.
Lucky has had a lazy day. Tomorrow he has to
try steering, today he did a good job with the winches. For a bear the
latitude is pretty hot with all that fur.
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