Day 5 Roller Coaster
Synijinsky
Mon 21 Nov 2022 18:06
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16:12.5N 037:03.1W
Trip: 715nm Wind: ENE
F6-8.
Another beautiful starry night. It is awesome to
watch Orion and the other constellations arc across the sky from horizon to
horizon. The Moon rises as a small crescent at around 5am and lasts until
sunrise at around 6.30am. During the night, the ocean was less
bumpy and Nijinsky was moving nicely in 20-25kts of wind avoiding most of
the holes.
However, as dawn cracked things got very
boisterous, with gusts up to 43 knots as we surfed down the waves at
10.5kts with two small handkerchiefs as sails. Fortunately that
wind only lasted an hour or so and we are currently back to a steady force
6 with 3m swell. We are still making excellent progress and sailing very
fast. We still haven't run the engine since we set off but we are having
to run the generator for 30 minutes every three hours because we have no solar
panels or other means of charging the batteries and George is very
hungry.
Dinner last night was Spaghetti Bolognaise with an
excellent Douro wine. Sadly, (due to the bumpiness), tonight we think we
are going to have to slum it with HiperDino pizzas (loaded with extras of
course).
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