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Ace - at Sea



Good Afternoon, Sorry for the late transmission today.

Yesterday and today are the days we knew we would be sailing through a trough of light air and it presented lots of challenges. In addition to losing our air any going 4 knots or less at times, we had to sail a course that was slightly away from St Lucia in order to get to a more favorable wind. As a consequence you may have noticed that we sailed far less distance yesterday than in previous days. Last night we actually sailed away from our destination by about 35 miles. Sometimes it takes a lot of patience and faith in the navigation team! Late this afternoon we finally set a course directly to St.Lucia and put up our first spinnaker. As the sun set a few minutes ago we dropped the kite and put up a working jib for the night sail.

We all love the night sailing because it is a time of sailing in the dark looking at stars, weather, enduring squalls and time to talk with one other crew member. Because it is dark and the rest of the crew is asleep, there is nothing to do but sail. We had other challenges as well. We said goodbye to our roller furling jib as it finally gave up last evening to be replaced by the shiny , relatively new racing #3. We did clear up a problem of a plugged aft head so not the whole day was given to problems, there were some successes and that was one.

We all continue to be healthy and happy enjoying the pleasures of life at sea such as whale sightings as well as dealing with the inevitable challenges. As I write, the crew is enjoing risotto prepared by William and Richard. So I will join them and leave you with this crude verse:

Wind roars, westerly Ace soars, shuddering to plane Breaking free. on course.

Finally thanks for all of the emails, we love getting them and they are the highlight of our midday.

Lots of love from us all, Fred, William, Adrian, Chris, Spider, Rob and Rocky (aka Sticky Ricky). You will have to ask him about that yourself

Time:  2110 GMT Position:   19*48.5'N  045*35.7'W

Wind:  16 knots from 051*

Weather:  Tradewind clouds! Speed:  8.5 knots

Heading:  270*

Crew of ACE [email protected]

PS.  Some of you have been sending messages which are quite appreciated and more are welcome.  We just ask you to keep them brief and you must also know that these are read daily in the cockpit for all to hear.  We enjoy it greatly!!!

Please refrain from sending attachments as we are using a satellite phone for our internet connection and images and files will use costly time. Please reply with text only. Thanks


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