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Skara Brae - Skara Brae blog day 20 friday 13th



We are in a wee squall at the moment and its very strange the sun keeps getting up later than us, bugger didn't get up until 10am must be the laid back Caribbean way of things.

You think someone (hmm was that another job I forgot)would have told ma GPS and electronics that there is a one hour time zone shift every 600miles west we go

So when we arrive on sun morning at 5am - it will actually be 1 am, just what we need, im sure there will be a wee whisky joint (if you excuse the pun)open somewhere.

Well the crew are getting fidgety to get there and Tosh has his flight home on Sunday afternoon, so he wants to be there late sat, to acclimatize hahahah

So they decided yesterday that since it was too windy fer the Spinny and too windy fer ure fecked main sail - we should fly both genoa and gennaker in a Goosewing fashion.

We duly did just that - and 'voila cest magnifique' we have been screaming along at an average of 9.3kts with upto 16kts (when we go surfing on a big atlantic wave)showing on the shichter scale and our average over the last 24 hours has been 210nm, we would have done more, but the wossey skipper (me) decided he wanted to protect what was left of his running rig to fight another day (as it was getting upto 35kts in the squalls - so he (I) secretly put a wee reef in both sails on his 2am watch, which was actually a doddle as the moon was bright as a button and I didnt even need a torch to see the sails.

So anyway here we are belting along at 9 kts (yes the crew got wise at 9am and put everythin oop again), in the rain, and I canny get to eat ma porridge in comfort, as I'm being thrown aroon like a drunk at a ceilidh dance (or whatever the feck its spelt).

Saw a wee bird this morning - 1st one I've saw in over a week (although Tosh says he saw a massive big penguiny type thing the other night!), so we are def going the right way.

We are now about 300 miles from land, so we should be seeing signs of life soon

The crew have seen some lights from cargo ships earlier in the week, but I've seen nothing for over 1 week, no birds, no boats, no planes, nothing except the kamikaze flying fish.

Although last night made up for it - I had a big bright moon overhead all night, and loads of stars - and the boat was surfing along on the top of massive waves, which then crashed as they broke, all this with such a spectacular backdrop!

Anyway enough of my gibbering - lets see if we can get this boat to go any faster, we have 2 friendly boats waiting with beer for us in St Lucia

aw the best fae Skara Brae


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