Aqualuna - 15:28.807N 52:43.986W

DAY 13 ARC SATURDAY 5/12/15

I wrote a blog last night and for some reason it was rejected by mailasail. This one will be even more up to date. We have had acres of golden seaweed floating and no way of avoiding running through it or in to it. The night before last we cleared our prop and rudder of it by going into reverse engine this worked well. We no longer had the feeling of drag or the sound of drums on the bottom of the hull aft. During the night last night we again ended up with tons of weed which slowed us down and made a shuddering effect and vibration on the prop. Int day light Jonathan came up furled the genoa and went to put the yacht into reverse unfortunately at the time we were in a huge big rolling sea and we broached to port, the spinnaker sheet was washed off the deck and slid into the water and wrapped itself around the prop…..BANG!! and a few swear words from the skipper. Sadly the prop did not cut through it and the sea is far too rough to go in and do anything about it. So we now have that giving us drag. Moral of the story tie every loose sheet on the rail if not in use.

Sue saw a meteorite last night a flaming ball passing through the sky with a burning tail whilst she was on watch. We had Dolphins playing around the yacht yesterday afternoon, I believe they were hunting flying fish as there was quite a shoal of them shooting across the water with the Dolphins in hot pursuit.

The sea is huge at the moment and waves coming from every direction making us roll like mad. Sadly I think we have lost out to the Halberg Rassy in place with no way of making up the time now. According to out log we have 2 days,10 hours and 58mins to get to the finish line.