Day three
Jacana
David Munro
Mon 12 Jan 2009 15:13
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12th January 2009
After the first 36 hours of racing, things have
quietened down as the breeze falls to very little as we await a weather front
approaching from the west which should give us plenty to play with for a couple
of days as we push further north and west.
We have sailed just North of the Rhum line with
most of the fleet to the north of us. The wind gradully died away to nothing
during the course of this morning, we changed down to our Number one head sail
which gave us every last thing out of the boat. It was a late decision to take
the Number one as this race is traditionally down wind, but has proven it's
worth already despite taking a rating penalty.
On the wild life watch today, the number of sea
birds has decresaed dramatically, the calmer condtions have shown us large
numbers of Jelly fish, we think they are the blue Portugese Man of war - small
but dangerous! We had a large "fish" eating near the surface mid morning, it was
difficult to identify but could have been either a small shark or a saw
fish.
Crew of Jacana
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