Mojo blog 11

It was the slow motion of the boat that dictated the sail pattern for the day wind from behind meant the code zero and spinnaker together, half an hour of planning half an hour to hoist and adjust all the rigging and with 11 knots of wind we were averaging 7.4 knots speed over the ground, just to labour the point the speed of the boat plus any tides or currents favourable or ill make up the SOG, for a production boat of 16 tons to be dragged along by 2 bits of cloth at that speed is pretty damn good even if I do say so myself.

So good progress throughout the day but we fell off a cliff at dusk and are now creeping along with the hope of favourable winds in the morning.
During the day the remainder of our canned fuel was loaded into our diesel tank so that has boosted our tank capacity to nearly 200 litres which has to be enough to get us to our destination, so fuel management has now become a top of the list itemalong with water, food tea and buscuits, will we have enough for the remainder of the journey.

Talking about food our onboard Chef produced the meal of the day with his famous seafood mixed salad with green beans which was consumed with a glass of chilled orange zing, for those of you that don’t know zing comes in various flavours and lives in a packet, we just add it to the drinking water to make us think of England and its bloody cheap.