Another day at sea.....
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Mon 19 Dec 2005 12:26
Another Day at
sea.......position N14' 50'W
We are still whizzing
along. This is mainly due to racing mentality on board, we are no longer
cruisers, we are racers. We are racing against Santa Claus, and it is
a very serious business. Can you remember the drums and the waves of
the Guiness Bitter advertisement? Well, that's what it is like
here....huge waves, tension, hand helming, spinakker snapping in the wind,
watching the squalls roll in, with more sail changes needed. We are not
sparing the horses! We have given up using the hydrovane, and use the
autohelm, because it keeps the boat straighter, and therefore faster, as you
don't leave a meandering wake. This means that we have to charge the
batteries more often, buy hey, that means you can motor as well and get an extra
knot for a couple of hours. Our wake is fizzing, rushing out behind us
like a river in spate. Chris goes round muttering with a calculator,
saying, 'We have to maintain an average speed of six knots to get there on
time.'
We are beginning to hope
that we might win, and be able to drop the anchor on Christmas
eve............Keep blowing everyone!!!
Lunch:
?noodles supper: corned beef hash with pasta, pudding:
biscuits