Force 9 to Force nothing
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Position: 37:52N 037:09W Morning readers, 0630 here. Brownwater and myself on deck at the
mo. We had good sailing yesterday with 16 knots of NW winds with
good tunes combined (a selection of Mr Scruff, Jamie XX, SBTRKT
and more if you're interested!). We were flying in the early stage
of the night and with a full moon, calm seas, full sail and boom
out rocking along at 10 knots....it was pretty ace. The wind
dropped around 0400 and since then we've tried a combination of
all sails to keep us moving. We've got 7 knots of North wind at
the moment and doing 5 knots SOG so we're giving up and going to
do a bit of motor sailing to keep the distance coming down. We've
also got some clunking noise coming from the forestay when the
genoa is fully unfurled. It doesn't do it when there is half a
turn on the furl which is strange and we can't pin point where its
coming from. Will have to investigate the furling mechanism when
we get to Gib. We also noticed while investivating that the teak
on the stainless pulpit was about to go over the side. Water must
have got between the stainless and the silicone, so we've removed
that and stuck it in the locker also. Not really much else has occured really. oh yeah fishing. No fish, we had the rods out all day and when our lonesome Captain Hook finally took a bite, the blighty ran off with the lure...so that's a rod and two lures gone making that 3-1 to the fish. So that's it for now. We're about 400 miles off the Azores so a sailby should occur in two days. Pic of the day...the ice-trucker doing some helm time Shalan out
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