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Laura Dawn - Pacific Log 9: She's flying again



The asymmetric is back out and flying again - Yea!, giving us 8 knots of speed in 16 knots of breeze. The debate continues over when and if to gybe to head back north as currently the wind is leading us further south... The debate has been being discussed for the last 4 days!

Helen's Thai coconut chicken curry on the menu tonight followed by more chocolate brownies for desert :)

After a day of rest on Sunday, LD made a comeback in todays Owl LD Quiz scoring 5 out of 8 (Owl only managed 1 1/2.. for a change, its usually us!) I think the question asking the amount of power needed for the flux capacitor in the Back to the Future Delorian got them! Totals now stand at 15 1/2 Owl and 15 to LD.

Between writing this and posting we have blown the Asymetric, yes yes, I know it only managed less than 10 hours! The tear in the foot of the sail has now been patched, it needed all 4 of us to unfold the sail across the length of the boat and we have now repaired and bagged it ready for another day of lighter winds, nothing too major, just another day in the middle of the pacific 1200 miles from anywhere.

New sail plan for tonight: full main, full genoa, 17 knots of wind and we are making 315 course over the ground and 6 knots boat speed (unfortunately though only 4.5 VMG to the Marquesas). 12 09 south, 118 06 west.

LD: 13th March 19:51

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