WEDNESDAY 9th MAY
2012
00.00hrs Wind ESE 22 knots, so a close
beat with a full genny and 3 reefs in the Mainsail and we
were flaking along at 7 .5 knots,
Trip so far,................................ 619
miles,
Dist, to Destination................... 260
miles,
The seas were lumpy, the sky overcast and it
was blooming cool.
03.00hrs the wind just died , so we motored again
untill 06.00hrs and off again with the sailing,
By morning, we were all wrecked from a bumpy night
and stop, start stop, start , with the engine and sails.
09.00hrs The roll call, weather forecast,
etc,
The ARC weather guys are never accurate, but today
they have it right, ( hindsight being an exact science )
they gave us what we were already in ,
The fishing was better today, we caught a HUGE fish
yet again, but vanished after 15 minutes, We had a pizza for lunch and shortly afterwards we
set up a goose wing arrangement, the wind was building all day and we were bombing along, at 9 knots, this was all
in line with our 2 day old Mailasail Grib File on the weather,
Dinner consisted of roast Chicken with sweet
chilli jam, risotto rice and water, a tricky meal to make but
interesting,
hot and sticky and yum, yum, yum, The wind went further SSE and kept building to such
an extent that we had to reef everything down , still Tom &
Linda recorded speeds of 12.5 knots on their watch,
exciting sailing, but, very bumpy,
we expect to reach Bermuda around midday tomorrow,
Skipper recalled the time Ronan Burke fell off his
bunk in the Port Cabin and all the bags fell from the top bunk down
on top of him,
Gawd, we thought it was so funny at the time, Picture this, being hit by a big wave , Linda
falling out of the bottom bunk followed by Tom out of the top bunk down onto Linda below on the floor, and you know
Linda can be sharp at times, sooooo, poor Tom, had a soft landing except for the hidden sharp edges ,
ahhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhh,
Thats all for today,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )