Tilly Mint ARC Day 15 - The home run
Tillymint.fortescue
Mon 7 Dec 2009 16:15
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14:29:37N 058:41:22W
136 miles to go - excitement building as has the
wind; a frisky force 6 from the east is bouncing us along at 9 knots with
occassional spikes at 12 knots as the squalls come through. Steve took one for
the team last night when he got doused in a down pour of "biblical
proportions"..The Atlantic is going for a big finish, huge rolling swell,
looming black cloud interspersed with bright blue.
We lost another line last night, our jib sheet
chaffed through so the jib isn't poled out anymore - 2 wheels on our
wagon!
Lots of banter on the radio as yachts converge on
St Lucia, much talk of beers and shredded sails. We can see a couple of the
yachts and others show up on AIS. There'll be quite a gang of us
arriving in the small hours of Tuesday morning - reckon they'll open the
bar specially for us??!!.
More news later in the day - we've got one more
gybe to do to get us heading straight for St Lucia - at the moment we are
heading hard for Barbados. We have a sweepstake going on board to predict
arrival time so the timing of the gybe is open to bribery....
Here are the crew's punts on arrival time (all St
Lucia time, 5 hours behind UK)
Skipper 01.00
Alison
04.50
Claire
11.00
Steve
midnight
Hugo
02.30
Laurence 03.30
Immy 21.00
(Monday - the crew optimist!)
The prize for the best guess is double grog rations
and the honour of helming Tilly Mint across the finish line. Laurence & I
are hot favourites at the moment
We've got the champagne cooling. Immy asked if she
could have her own glass. We said of course sweetheart - every time you
cross the Atlantic you can have your own glass of
champagne......
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