Day 1
Top Secret
Feel The Magic Yacht Vacations
Fri 11 Jun 2010 20:08
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Position: 20:50.51N 64:26.18W
Left Frenchman's Cay just before 8:00 in the dark
and headed past Joste van Dyke on the left and Anagada on the
right.
Matt's Cabin fan is broken so i will have to swap
it out with another one, maybe the one from the forward berths. Full main and
Genoa in about 15 Knots of wind heading due North to Bermuda, which is 830 NM
from Tortola. Mari went to bed at about 10:30 and Matt followed suite at
11:00.
I was on watch until the sun came up. I called Mari
to watch it rise with me over a cup of hot coffee. During the night a flying
fish landed on deck and we passed a few localised rain storms, but missed them.
The RADAR actually picks up the storms and tracks them...cool.
I have set the auto pilot (Ray) on a
wind heading of 56 degrees and we are making good headway at about 8.5 Knots.
The galley hatch in the floor is leaking badly. Every time we have a bit of wave
slam the water shoots in through a gap in the rubber seal. Matt and I inserted 2
towels into the hatch opening to absorb the water and to stop it shooting into
the boat.
At about 11:00 am in the morning the Screacher sail
tore in two. This was a mission to bring down and I had to get in the water to
dismantle the pole. It took me more than an hour to get it sorted, but we are
underway again, albeit a bit slower than before.
I started the generator to make water and charge
the batteries, so I thought I would turn on the Air Conditioning and take a nap.
I haven't slept in 24 hours. Water tanks were full in less than an hour and I
have an hour left to go on the
batteries.
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