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Azzurra - Day 10 – back to normal-



Position 3.12.2013 11:00,

The day started superb, our chef cooked us a nice breakfast, lots of eggs ham and bread. After all the experience we faced during the last days, we come back to normal routines. The moral of the crew improved rapidly. Now everyone talks on these adventures, like it was a normal event. Paul did some cloth washing; Brian started to prepare the rod again with a new lure. The whole night we had a pleasant ride thru the waves with 7 to 8 knots. Azzurra is now running on Track which means strait to St. Lucia without need to being watched. The waves hit us from the side, NE which is more comfortable than from the front. It looks like we left all the squalls behind us for now; however, there will be more on our way. Today we change our time to UTC minus one.

Every day so far we had seen Dolphins except during the last three days, no dolphin visited us.

Nevertheless we still have a few problems to consider. The major one still is on how to recover the Genoa. Discussions are still ongoing to find a method without someone has to be lifted up the mast. The next one is how to manage our fuel consumption for charging the Batteries. We will try to operate the Batteries on a lower level and if possible run the Generator only during the night shifts for limited hours. As up to now we have enough fuel for the Generator to get us to St Lucia. However we want to be prepared for the unforeseen, in case our journey takes longer then we can expect right now. We will evaluate how to minimize the consumption of the Gen. As a first action we took Brian’s input was realized, we changed the rudder response to 2, showing an improvement right away.

We need to mention Franz again. He is doing such a good job ignoring so far all the limiting circumstances and preparing outstanding food. We know while he cooks he always has to fight his sea sickness, which makes the job even harder.

On behalf of the brave crew
Manfred

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