Wet Clothes
MILANO BLANCO
James Blackburn
Thu 9 Jul 2009 22:27
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08 July 2009 noon 39:11.07N 41:27.9W
Paul:
We had a lot of strong wind yesterday afternoon,
unexpectedly, the weather forecasts we had received for 6am & 6pm gave the
winds at 10-15 knots, what they did not tell us was that inbetween they were
going to be 35-40 knots. Some of the waves reached 30 foot from top to
bottom.
The night went fairly calmly as the wind had
dropped, just a few heavy rain showers. I managed to dodge a couple of the
heavier rain showers by putting in gybes.
This morning we were supposed to have a gentle
15 knot breeze but it was more like 25.
Fortunately the wind has been behind nearly all the way, which has made the
blows much more tolerable.
I have almost no dry clothing left and with the
wind as it has been over the 5 days, we have had no chance to dry
anything.
We have travelled 146.2nm in the last 24 hours at
an average speed of 6.1knots.
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