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Seawalk - 28-11-2008 21:42N 21:54W Atlantic Crossing – day 6 Tête à tête with Offspring
Seawalk - 28-11-2008 21:42N 21:54W Atlantic Crossing – day 6 Tête à tête with Offspring
Well well,
5 days sailing and 500 miles. And guess what, who do we
meet just next to SeaWalk? Our neighbours from pontoon 17 Offspring. After a
talk on the VHF we continue our conversation directly. We were that close.
It was a
shame it lasted so short since Offspring had at least ½ knot of boat speed
extra. Sadly they overtook us. During the day we saw them coming toward us
flying a huge yellow spinnaker and at dusk they put on beautiful twin trade wind
foresails. We can’t beat that with our Genaker and our Genoa at
night.
The wind
has finally found us which is a very good thing. Typing this blog is getting
difficult too since the swell has picked up too. Sad to say the boat speed is
not good yet. The wind is at 120 degrees
and I should be flying the Genoa without the pole. I have forward placed
baby-stays which prevent me from bringing the pole more backwards and I can’t
trim the sail properly on the pole. We are loosing speed this way. But at night
there’s only one of us and it is a two man job. I will have to wait for the
watch to change.
Today was
a bit boring compared to yesterday. Yannick saw a turtle today. Unfortunately
everybody else missed it. So we filled the void with three sail changes and two
gypes. Since I don’t have in mast furling or a genoa on a furler, everything
needs to be done on the foredeck by hand. But we’re getting the hang of
it.
Today the
GPS is a bit more optimistic. It believes we will arrive in St Lucia on the
15th. That is much better than yesterday when it was telling us we
would spent Christmas on the Atlantic. We’ll
see.
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