Kelpie - Monday 3 December 2018

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> Having suggested that Kelpie needs to pick up her skirts I let the
> "Lymington Tweakers" loose and then went and hid in my bunk while they
> applied all the little tricks they have learnt during hundreds of Folkboat
> races. The result is impressive -Kelpie is roaring along at 7+ knots
> without any evident stress and they are very proud of getting 10.5 knots
> on the clock at one point! A a result of all this, our noon to noon run
> is 163 miles - our best day's run since that day in August just out of
> Lisbon. We are watching the leaderboard very closely and clinging on to
> our top-three placing.
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> Jane has sent us an email describing her and Leigh's trip to the spa over
> the weekend; our spa here is much nicer - every room has a sea view and we
> get free Thalassa Therapy thrown in - mostly at random when least
> expected!
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> In fishing news, Chris has been pondering how to make the best of his fast
> diminishing stock of lures and weights and announced , rather alarmingly,
> at breakfast that he has decided to re-arrange his tackle. The rest of us
> are wondering if this will produce anything as impressive as "The Mindelo
> Whopper".
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> And finally, I caught a fish myself last night - rather it caught me when
> a flying fish simply landed on my lap when I was on watch in the middle of
> the night! It was lucky because I threw it back; others on board might
> have tipped it into Chris' bait bucket.
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