Hello:
Pos: 18.30
23 03N 25 55W
Sailing wise not too much has happened since yesterday. We have been surrounded by Scandinavian boats (at least 3 others) where one of them was Tindra from Sweden a Swan 59 so we have not done too badly aftr all.
The kids and crew are all in good mood and working fine, which is not the story when it coms to our equipment.
The fresh water pump sized to work late last night, so i spend 3hrs in the front hatch trying to replace it, luckily i bought a spare one in Las Palmas!
Later we realised that our generator (which has been leaking a bit of the fresh water into the saltwater) now has leaked water into the main engine so the oil is now a grey masch and the generator is tutti finito! (so our power consumption must be drastically reduced because now we rely totally on solar and wind generatosrs).
And as the say is, no two without a third, our satfone dockingstation has died as well so now it is a hassle to charge it and send mails etc...
So, we are almoast back to Columbus times with candel light and and shortly warm beers!
So to summarise the day, good sailing but a total equipment failiure day (remembering that the plotter still shuts itself down when it feels to do so).
So from now on the phone will be mostly off to save battery, so e-mail is the best way to rech us.
Untill next time!
NJ