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Blonde Moment - blog 7 day5



Sunday

the wind was elusive all Saturday night and in to Sunday morning but by 0500 we had a mega 6 kts on wind - just about enough to try sailing again.

so ... engine off sails up .. we were moving again with out burning diesel but the course was not good - who cares we still have over 1200 mile to go to Horta.

as sail change to code zero improved our course and speed and we now had a speed over the ground of 5 knots - a major achievement considering the passed 24 hours.

By the end of the day the winds have increased to around 18 knots and we had change the code zero for a poled out head sail and had a heady boat speed of 8 kts but were being driven back by a very annoying current reducing our speed over the ground to 6.6-7 kts.

A trade off with the increase in wind is a bigger sea state and a bouncy boat meaning life is harder and sleep is more difficult . As we are down to 2 crew i hope this does not start to be a problem- so far i feel i am getting more sleep than i did with the ARC last November with a crew of 4 - odd ... time will tell

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