“15:47,27 56:57,50W”
256 miles to go to Saint Lucia
after a great run yesterday we had our showers our meal and a relax time
just to be confronted with 1st port baby shroud giving where i had the idea of
changing over the starboard to the port as we were on a port tack . climbing up
and onto port shroud and undoing dropping into sea so the guys could get the
broken one back was a bit of a problem with the 7 meter swells . great all done
time to go onto starboard and remove that baby shroud but first i wanted to put
a couple of anchor lines to support the middle of the mast . BANG and the
starboard baby gives way and im down the mast the fastest i have done it in a
long way . spinnaker sheet up and over spreader around mast and back to a port
cleat and then repeated on the other side gave us that support we required and
we were back on the move again at a very healthy 6 knots heading in the right
direction with only 4sq meters of sail out. A quick email off to arc control to
check if anyone was close enough should the mast drop and we need any assistance
with fuel for the remaining 400 miles . fingers crossed so far . the evening was
spent in our traditional way with wine and a few games of cards to relax
ourselves after such a hectical evening . with the wind and waves sending us to
st Lucia we are now confident that all is well and we will get there under 1/8
sail and with the generator with about 75 lts of fuel . O we like to cut it fine
.
Lovely morning with a few squalls gave us time to have a fresh water shower
and that looks like what is going to happen for next couple of days while we are
out here . so watch us on yellow brick and you may hear from us tomorrow .
Andy