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La Rochelle - la rochelle still in the med



Has anyone seen a repsol ? As we are going to need one tonight. Very frustrating trying to motor sail down breeze in 7 knots of wind ,with our .5 ounce kite spending most of the time wrapped around the spreaders. We are eaking out 6 knots down the rhumb line trying to punch through the hole using only 2.2 litres and hour at 1400 rpm. The " green death" is doing a wonderful job. All that practice motor sailing in the med is now starting to pay off , as we may be able to squeeze another 12 hours out of our fuel supply.

We need 40 litres spare which is in the Locker to be used for topping up our batteries ,after we hopefully find the breeze, if not ,we will have to drift along under kite at 3 knots and wait for a decent breeze.

Bloody hot in the sun so we stopped for lunch today and had another swim in the pool, so everyone is very clean and well rested.

Halfway this evening so we have a special dinner planned, heinz spaghetti with cheese on vegemite toast, yummm!!

The nights are almost completely dark now as the waning moon only shows an appearance at 3 am , but the starlight and shooting stars are magic and make up for it.

Having our shade sails up over the cockpit gives us another 0.1 knot , every little bit counts.
The English lessons are progressing well, with our "foreigner" passing his first exam with a score of 90%.

Cheers from all on La Rochelle


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