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Crazy Horse - March 14



Our position 1625 UTC 00 20.S 41 07.W

Seems like we have had days of this NW wind on the nose that we can't sail to and can only motor banging on the waves as we go. This is not our most comfortable point of sail and from the sounds of the rest of the fleet they are having the same. Of course this is not sailing at all! Rain , rain, rain. As close to the equator as we are you would suspect hot sun , no wind. But here we have wind from the wrong direction, and incessant rain. Guess we are never happy to hear me complain. If we have to motor if would be better to have no wind than this. From this direction of sailing we can only go to Africa or back to Brazil. Hopefully by tomorrow we will be through the worst of this.

Right when I was to come off watch the temperature on the engine soared up to 120 Deg. I woke Bill up with a yell and we shut off the engine. He went to see the problem and discovered the makeshift hose on the engine coolant pump had blown off. So he went to work on that again. We rolled around sailing in the wrong direction then got the engine working again. This last leg is certainly giving us some challenges. Our endurance is surely being tested.


We are trying to keep to our timetable of our March 24th deadline to be in Grenada. Hopefully we will meet Maryann's plane. We just need the wind and weather to cooperate a little. Right now we have 15-20 kts of wind from the NW-NNW. The good ole southeasterlies would be nice now.

So as we bang along we will not complain when that sun finally shows its face once again.

Rosemary,Bill and Matt


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