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Little Pea - Little Pea's Arc 14 Blogoramma - Melinda calling



14:59.7N  054:59.4W
 
Tune of the Day:  You stole the sun from my heart - Manic Street Preachers
 
Day 17. Less than 350 miles to go and it looks like its a straight run into St. Lucia with steady trade winds behind us.  We had a fast, albeit slightly tense, nights' sailing last night and Melinda performed well for us until the squalls started coming in at 0200 hours, at which point we put both her and ourselves to bed for the night.  This morning we brought her back into action and she's been flying most of the day, hurling us towards land. 
 
The great thing about closing in on land is that we are now starting to spot other yachts.  Having spent over 2 weeks out here with little more than the odd whale and lots of flying fish, we are now spotting our fellow yachtsmen out on the horizon.  This morning we had two yachts tracking us, about 4-5 miles away, both much bigger than us moving along effortlessly across the ocean waves.  Goodness knows what they must have made of this 40 footer barrelling along at 8 kts with a spinnaker up playing the Manic Street Preachers....
 
Perhaps our most positive news is that, having run out of rum, we've now found a bottle on Gin, so it'll be sun downers again this evening...Minkey mas made apple crumble, hooray!!
 
***Questions Corner***
Q: Are you in range of Grindr out there?
A: Not got a clue, however all of our sails are on Tinder... *swipes right*
 
Daily stats;
 
Max Boat speed = 10.3 kts 
Number of spinnakers used = 1
Maximum Gust =  26 kts
Number of Flying Fish = Hundreds
Number of other yachts = 4
Amount of Rain = IT'S SPITTING!
Advent calendar highlight = Still melted, in spite of them being in the fridge
 
Jags, Minkey, Ben and Mike


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