Day 15 SY Forté position 32° 01.6S 160° 55.6E
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Wed 13 Apr 2011 00:22
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1200 NZT ~ Were nearly into lord
Howe Island ~ 98.1 nms to
go! Last 12hrs ~
72.9 nms, last 24hrs
149.8nms During the day yesterday and last night we really
covered some great mileage and with slightly eased sheets we were peaking at 8
to 9 knots occasionally so we managed to cover the mileages mentioned above. the
wind was up to 20 knots gusting 2 or 3 knots more few times. This made it an
enjoyable sailing the motor only came on to charge the batteries. We will be in
LHI for about a day and an half before we set off with more favourable winds for
the east coast of Aus. We have been experiencing a few difficulties with water
inside the boat getting the swabs in the of the yacht getting wet at times and
it didnât seem to favour one side or another. Then after last night, Stefan and
I finally figured out what was going on the fresh water tanks both have
inspection hatches on them and both tanks are connected by a balance pipe with
an isolation valve that shuts one of the tanks off. While we were on starboard
tack all the water moved over to the port side and because the inspection
hatches leak the water comes out hatch and wets the swabs. At this point there
is nothing we can do about it but not fill the tanks right up and restrict the
pressure on the hatches and hence slow down the amount of water that gets out.
This is a job to be done when Fortà gets to her new home port in
Melbourne, but if she is to raced around the cans it probably wonât make much
difference if the tanks are basically
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