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Ruby Rose - Day 6



Greeting from Ruby Rose,
 
750 miles from Las Palmas and we spent this morning preparing for a day of loafing around and reading. we’ve had a couple of lazy days getting us back into steady sleep patterns..
 
Firstly, our watt and sea generator isn't working properly. We think its a wiring problem, and so we will rewire it tomorrow and see what the news is there. Its a conduiting job which i hate. Never tried it at sea , so there's fun and games to be had there.
 
In other news: we stupidly took the advice from Tomas from Parasailor about our spinnaker halyards. He advocated a crane and block, not our system that has worked flawlessly for 3 years. So off we trotted to Rolnautic  (AKA the richest man in Spain) and purchased blocks and shackles.  Anyway, we hoisted the Parasailor at 9am this morning. At 1pm the Halyard frayed through. Parasailor now dragging through the sea. We will be having very stern words with Tomas when we get hold of him.
 
So, much swearing and cursing. We eventually got the sail back on board. However they are delicate little things and the parachute part and all its lines full of catching points. Next came the emergency rig repair. So we sent Neil up the mast to rig another Halyard. Nothing like watching your friend swinging 20m up in the air to make you take stock of life.
Finally another hour on deck trying to take 125m2 of spinnakAer and parachute and stuff it back into the snuffer ( which i may add seems to have weird lines and pulleys throughout). However we hoisted it and it flies again. No rips, it’s not inside out and its pulling us along nicely. We were lucky there.
 
Anyway, we finally sat down to lunch and cast out our fishing lines. We’re only using a small lure today, as with our luck we’ll end up catching Orca.
 
We have little wind here, we have headed almost west on the Rhum line and  still only have 10 kts. However its better than the 40kt gust we registered on the first night.
 
All our love,
 
 
Nick and Terysa

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