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Shaya Moya
Don & Susan Smyth
Mon 22 Nov 2010 13:09
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So we got off to a great start yesterday. The whole
team was in race mode for the first two hours or so and then the cruising
started. David's worked out an extremely scientific formular to organize the
watches, so far so good. We were doing very well yesterday, considering the
wind, or lack thereof. We sped away from some similar boats and even caught up
to some of the bigger oysters in the late afternoon. Unfortunately, the wind
died on us and darkness meant that we had to drop the cruising shute (not as
easy in the dark).
After we'd got the cruising shute down, the
generator packed up, no generator - no watermaker! So we fiddled around with it
and our Super Skipper did a systems check (He loves the checks) and found the
problem. The night was spent trying to keep any
sort of resonable speed up, not very successfully though. This morning's been
good, David and I rigged up a Goose-wing setup so we're back on course down wind
at 7-8 knots and loving it.
While we were rigging the Goose-neck our Super
Skipper Mechanic repaired the cooling system on the generator, so the watermaker
is back on line. Shower!! :)
Today is also the skipper's day in the kitchen so
we're all looking forward to what he's got in store for lunch and dinner.
The sun is shinning, the wind is blowing and sea is
calm, sometimes I just sits and smiles.
Lots of love to the land folk... Reece ( Deck
-hand... only one hand)
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