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Little Pea's ARC Blogoramma 9 - Wind shifts and wind holes.



18:53.1N 45:37.8W
 
We awoke exhausted after the havoc of the previous night to the great news that we had made some serious gains inspite of the foul conditions. Spirits were quickly raised as we knew we were going to be in for an easier time as the weather was due to ease off. Much of the day was spent trying to keep our pace up and then in the afternoon the inevitable happened: under a massive black cloud we had a 140degree windshift bringing all hands on deck to cope to settle Pea down to the new conditions. During this time the heavens opened. The biggest rain storm yet (and we've had some big ones) poured down. However, it was not all bad news, this was the first big rain storm we'd had during daylight. We took this opportunity to strip off and lather up in some shower gel and shampoo. We were going to post some pics but thought we may get banned from the blog site! We were refreshed and ready for what looked like would be a very different 2nd half to this race.
 
As night fell so did the wind and we were left with less than 6knots right up the chuff. We witnessed one of most impressive sunsets I've ever seen, lighting up the sky and the wide variety of clouds changing through all the colours down the red end of the colour spectrum before fading into the darkness. As we're in the ARC cruising division, we're allowed to uses our engines but incur a penalty for doing so. So, we 'spanked the iron donkey' (Kevin -  don't google this 'term', you may not find what you're looking for...) for the first time since race start and motored west in search of some wind. After a distressing night of false hope when little pockets of breeze teased us then disappeared, we finally found some steady winds at 8am when we stop the engine and carried on under sail.
 
Picture in advent calendar = We think this one was actually a dog poo
Max Boat speed = Nothing high enough to note
Number of Reefs = Niente
Maximum Gust = Not enough
Number of Flying Fish = More than yesterday, with 3 landing on the deck. Very smelly little things.
Number of Whales = 0
Amount of Rain = Enough for 4 very smelly guys to wash themselves and come out smelling of roses
 
Jags, Mike, Minkey and Ben



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