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Incisor daily blog 8-11-2013



Hello everyone!

Well, we are certainly eating up the miles today. We haven’t been under 9knts all day! We keep telling ourselves, only a Fastnet and the delivery back to go! We have been reaching most of the day which makes it feel as though we are going even faster. After a lighter patch last night the wind is back up to a steady 13knts and due to increase this evening and through till we get to St. Lucia. All those boats North of us are now getting into that light patch we have been trying to avoid this whole time so hopefully we should cover some ground against them in the next few days. We have had lots of sail changes today and we really are getting pretty slick at them now! Derek likes to keep us busy you see. No idle bodies on this boat that’s for sure.


Derek has been carrying out his daily routine of oiling the steering wheels. I know he likes to think it’s helping but having to oil them every day is surely a sign that it isn’t. It’s very weird because you are trying to sleep and these little voices keep calling your name and talking to you. Half the time you think someone is calling your name to get you up ready for your watch. The oddest thing one of the voices has said to me is “Alison, get me a banana”. During the delivery down to the Canaries it was like they were having a full blown conversation with you so when we got to Las Palmas, Rich took all the steering apart and  cleaned and re-greased and re-oiled and they still squeaked. I think it’s something we are going to have to live with!

Sandra was a very happy bunny this morning as she had cleaned the kitchen, the bathroom, the fridge and cleaned out all of the Tupperware. She does love her Tupperware pots!

Everyone is now craving that rum punch and those ribs in spinnakers, so St. Lucia, here we come!


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