What wind
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Chris & Lyn Darch
Wed 17 Sep 2008 23:14
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17:22.32S
162:14.25W
Hi Folks
Well it goes from one extreme to another , last
night the wind died so it was back to the iron head sail , speed down to 4.5
knots , still cant complain the sun is shinning still and the skies were clear
again .
Our trusted Yankee has become a bit tattered after
flogging in the light winds last night, the UV strip stitching has decayed a bit
and one edge of it has come loose, so it will be out with the sewing machine
when we get to Tonga , its done well as it now has 14,000 nm under its belt and
is the most used sail apart from the gennicker onboard , since all this down
wind stuff the main is virtually unused and sits in its cover quite contented
..
Meanwhile back at the ranch we are all tucked
into various books, it seems like James Mitchner is the flavour of the month
with Lyn reading Caribbean , Rob on Mexico and myself on one about the Klondike
gold rush , very interesting , especially the bits about the pack ice coming
down from the mountains in spring under the existing ice covering these massive
rivers and exploding through the surface burgs the size of houses, this was all
based in the 1890's and just showed how gullible people were to get to the gold
fields, it was the equivalent of crossing the pacific to get to these fields
from the eastern seaboard of Canada, most of the information was duff and the
only people who really new the route was the fur trappers, according to the book
the trail was littered with bodies who were ill equipped for such a torturous
journey.
It seems that sailing that distance is a much
better option than what those poor buggers went through, we use pilots these
guys were just doing it on hear say ,the bits they didn't tell them were that it
gets down to minus 40 for days on end in the winter and no amount of woolly
warmers will keep you alive unless you are under cover !
On the food front Lyn is back at the helm today ,
Rob made an exceptional Lamb chop with mashed spuds , and no sign of the cook
books coming out , hay we must all be getting the hang of it at last ! , we have
received a good lamb recipe from Lexa we were all slavering at the thought of it
yesterday but lacked any decent lamb, Lemons and a few other bits so that one on
our menu list when we get to NZ.
Me well my side bruises have come through a week
after the " lets go fly a mountain incident and I look like a relief map of New
York City , pain some what less today , but I'm still on the pills
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A windless Crewg
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