Day 3 - No Autopilot!
Sawsealady
David Moore
Tue 28 Nov 2006 12:13
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"26:01.179N 18:58.524W"
Minor
setback
A small problem has arisen in the fact that we have a
technical fault with the autopilot. After our discussion about going down
to Cape Verde Isles, or beating back to Canaries to find a Raymarine
agent, it was decided that we could handle 'losing a pair of hands' for the
sake of the all important helm! So, we have rescheduled the watch rota and
are now each taking 20 minute stints at the helm during our watch. Philippa
said that not having an autopilot didn't put Christopher Columbus off; why
should it us?
We had a little squall come in over our port quarter this
morning. Hold the Weetabix! The crew are now all a bit more ofay with
reefing main and headsail. Another big shift has been in starting to use
sea water for washing up cutlery. We have already used 25% of the
first of two tanks.
We daily name our water bottles, and Doc Fielding is
making sure we are all keeping hydrated. Donald and Peter cooked up a
superb Spaghetti Ragu last night. We have yet to have a 'Happy Hour'onboard but
our first sundowner can't be too far off.
David spent 9 hours sewing the spinaker yesterday and has
a lot more to do today !
Change in
Crew
 Team celebrations at Club Romano plus Groupies Terri Moore
and Sandra McSwein who came down to wave us off.
In replacement, at short notice, Peter Gallagher joined
for the ARC.
Like David, Peter enjoyed sailing Olympic Finns before
moving on to Merlin-Rockets and other classes.
Still finding our feet - but enjoying it!
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