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Quasar V of Lleyn - 28/10/2008 Log



Monday 27th October

SACRIFICE!

A lot of rain during the night, but it's a much better day with lots of sunshine, but not much wind until Malcy decides to make a sacrifice to the great wind god, "Ventius" and miraculously after he had thrown half of the starboard Lewmar 40 winch overboard (which he was repairing) we are sailing again! 

Speed is good during the afternoon at over 8 knots and the wind has come forward to 60 degrees off the bow. Clearly Malcy needs to make more sacrifices as the wind drops during the night and we are back to 6 knots! 

Forgot to mention yesterday that one of the sheets frayed through again whilst the Twistle was deployed, so Lindsey has now devised a system involving the leather binding and 2 tennis balls at the end of each sheet! Yet to be tested as we are currently sailing with the Yankee and main. 

Last but one episode of "Clare in the Community" tonight, which has provided great entertainment, whilst "sundowners" (mainly G & Ts) are being drunk and peanuts, cashew nuts etc are consumed! Tonight's beef stir-fry in hoisin sauce was rated very interesting by Ian (interesting in a good way). Ian of course is on permanent washing up and he made a startlingly sad revelation last night - he really enjoys washing up! 

Tried without success to get a photo transmitted with Saturday's log, but couldn't get it through after about 6 attempts. We need to download a programme from Mailasail when we get to Mauritius, which will identify what is taking up the bandwidth as we are trying to transmit.

 

At 06:50 local on Tuesday we are 339 nm from Port Louis at 18.38S 63.06E




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