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Beltana II - Day 10 - what the.....



Yes we are still looking for the trade winds. We motored south all night at about 5 knots and at sunrise the crew put up the sails and doused the engine to catch the breeze – little though it was. We decided to spend most of the day just trying to sail (to conserve fuel) and we did, but the penalty was we were travelling at only 1-1.5 knots ans sometimes we ended up heading back towards Cape Verde Islands (yes Anna asked me yesterday if I was going backwards!!) but we have achieved some south – down to less than 19 degrees North now so we are heading in the right direction I think to find the trade winds.  The low pressure ridge west of Cape Verde Islands is the problem which has flattened the pressure and pushed the trades even further south.....
 
Oh well, can’t control the weather.  Johnny caught another fish today (score JR –1; POG – 1: JM – 3) and it was a Wahoo – lovely fish too. There was another big fish in the sea trying to chase it as Johnny wound it in, and it jumped right out of the water after the Wahoo – a beautiful deep blue fish – maybe  Blue Marlin??? Not huge but fast.
 
Today a few more repairs were needed about the place (ie yacht), we found one of the main battens was two feet out of its pocket to the rear. So down comes the main, and we fiddle about with the batten tensioning device at the mast, and get the batten back in and out of the way and then Graham did a great job sewing in a new piece of leather and closed the hole in the leather batten pocket.  Then still with stich in hand we moved onto the dodger where we had a hole develop on the rear port corner against the stainless steel supports. Gormet sandwiches for lunch and Tuna for dinner tonight – looking forward to that delight for sure.

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