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CLEONE Leg 17 Day 11 - Muddled Numbers

Shurly Shome Mishtake? as Dear Bill would have said.
 
Did any of you spot that there were two consecutive Day 8 Blogs?  Probably not if you just delete them without reading them, and by the way it is possible to get your system to delete these pieces for you automatically without you needing to bother!  What worries the Skipper and crew too (maybe), is that if your Editor is muddling up simple numbers like that, what on earth is he doing to the navigation?  Only slightly less worrying is that the accounts and stores are looked after by Norfy, so they should be OK.  And I have just discovered that some of my e-mails, including these Blogs, have not reached their destinations, so if any of you are missing either some of these (and who can tell if the numbers are all to cock) or any other replies to your mails, then please let the Skipper know.
 
It is probably the worry of all this that has turned parts of the Skipper's rather short straggly beard grey in places.  Apart from that it has been a difficult day for both Navigator and the various Helmspersons.  Our destination is now directly down-wind of us.  This is much better than it being directly up-wind, of course, but no sailing boat likes running directly before the wind.  It's slow, and it is also very difficult to decide which is the best tack to be on.  For the first time this leg, we have the full mainsail up, and we are goose-winging, with the mainsail and mizzen out to Starboard (which is only preferable in the very unlikely event of us getting involved with another yacht in a Port/Starboard dispute) and the genoa poled out to port.  The wind has moderated, but after a wonderful sunny day yesterday the rain is back this morning.  Woe, and just as we had managed to get most of our clothes and the (inside of the) boat dry.  But we continue to make reasonable progress, and there is around 6 hundred miles left to get to Mauritius.  We are still hoping to arrive sometime on 14th October.
 
All well with us, and best wishes to everyone,
 
James, Norfy (Chris) and Alex
Yacht Cleone
19o05'S 067o53'E



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