During the course of day 2 the wind eased, the waves were smaller and we
all managed to catch up on our sleep. The sun came out and life seemed
wonderful and the sailing more comfortable.
The ARC has an SSB radio net that runs once a day for boats to be able to
talk to one another. Penny has volunteered to be a Net Controller for the
group of boats we are in, group A, which has about 30 boats in it. So far
it is a fairly small group. There are 5 net controllers in our group and
they take it in turns to be lead person for the day. Penny’s turn is on
Friday.
Wednesday was almost without incident; after dinner (Spag Bol) Penny was
putting away our plastic dinner bowls when the boat lurched and a couple of
china bowls she’d stored on the wrong shelf fell out when the boat did a sudden
lurch, and broke.
Thursday morning one of the strings that holds the lazy bag which the sail
goes into had broken on the port side. Richard to the rescue!
The wind was light 10-12 knots the sea was less rolly so he volunteered to go up
the mast to retrieve the broken end of the string. What a hero but if
Ellen Macarthur can do it in the southern ocean......
The string is now replaced, the string the other side checked and is
ok. This delayed our progress a bit but we still managed to reach our
target of 150nm a day.
Dinner Thursday evening – beef casserole, and will someone start eating all
the fruit we’ve bought!