Day 6
leeonsea
Lee Price
Sat 17 May 2008 19:50
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N29.19.76 W069.10.93
Wind SW Heading050T
Supprisingly good news, 95miles covered yesturday,
better than expected. My milage is noon to noon Zulu so I did have all
of last night to make up some of the difference.
Toyed with the idea of taking down my GooseWing
arrangement which involves a bit of deck work that I didn't fancy having to do
in the dark. The problem with this sail plan is, once the wind picks up a bit
the boat tends to yaw so much so that the helm can't keep track, this is due to
the fact that the sails are uneven in size and one is set forward of the other.
Imagine trying to push a supermarket trolley with only your left hand and you
get an idea of the issue. In the end I decided to leave it all in place and was
not disapointed. This morning we were running at 5-6kts at one point as we
surfed down the wave I clocked 8.9kts and whats more, more or less, we're
heading in the right direction so all speed is good speed.
Wouldn't it be awful if you had those voices on
your GPS like you do in Car SatNav's, unless you could get the novelty voices
like John Cleese or Billy Conerlly 'Och noo, your supose to be doing 60deg, not
30 you stupid Ba%#$%d!' Imagine leaving the Bahamas and having some
mundane womans voice with imperfect inflecion announce 'In 3900miles, arrive at
destination' good greiff.
Begining to pick up bits of Bermuda Radio which is
encouraging. Sun is shinning and all is well. Last night once the wind returned
there was much rejoicing culminating in an impressive air guitar performane to
Green Day. Today has seen some fabulas sailing and will reach Bermuda only a day
later than expected, this is to the good though as that means I'll only be one
day ahead of the pack leaving on the ARC europe rally, it'll be nice to have
company.
Peace out!
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