Date: 28th Nov 2012 11;30 UTC
Time: 09:00 UTC
Position: 25 16.24N 20’10.21W
SOG: 8-9 knots
COG: 240 approx
Weather: Scattered rain, clouds STILL!
Wind NW 10-15 knots
Hello all
Well we’ve had an exciting day since last report, with skipper Jacko taking
the surfing speed record, now at 16.6 knots.
Conditions have continued very similar to yesterday, rather grey, cloudy,
few passing showers, but with a healthy following wind. Seas slightly
quartering us, which gives a corkscrew to the motion, but this we expect to
disappear as we enter the trades proper. Conditions overnight were especially
good, and it was deemed appropriate to reef the main this morning at change of
watch after the wind fairy gave us 35 knots following. (Others less charitable
might see the reef as Jacko’s way of defending his record!)
Since then we have gybed onto port tack, expecting to make some distance
south into the trades before sneaking around the bottom of a developing low
ahead of us.
Passing traffic has been light, with two tankers and a close sighting of
the Balmoral (Fred Olson?) overnight. There also is another yacht some miles
away on our port quarter, as yet unidentified.
From all the crew – Jacko & Sam, with Ryan, Oscar, John, Neil, Pete,
Jack
LULM