Better Days
Balvenie
Mark Farrell & Amanda Church
Tue 3 Jan 2012 17:48
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Current Position at 1700 GMT 12:02N 43:15W, nothing
else has changed really, slight easing of wind, about 18-23 knots, seas still as
lumpy as ever but swell starting to be a little more uniform, speed around 6.7
knots.
Well the highlights of the last 24 hours have been
our half way party at 3am and no rain squalls. The sails have not needed
changing but it is cloudy again now so we are still on squall alert. The
sea state is still pretty awful really, but the miles are slipping away and we
are now well under 1000 to go, yippee.
The fishing line did not get deployed, just too
rough still to be on the back of the boat if we did happen to catch something,
so it looks like spaghetti bolognese for dinner. Wish I'd made up two
weeks supply of passage meals, its a real challange trying to cook in this jerky
roll.
Tony on Aussie Catamaran Tactical
Directions is still coping
single handed, he seems to have sorted out his autopilot issues but the latest
on this afternoons sched was that his freezer has gone into meltdown,
bugger.
Kiwi's David and Brenda on
Bandit have just one more night to go before arriving in Barbados,
good on them. Brenda very kindly bought us a Christmas Cake and Christmas
Pudding at Morrisons in Gibraltar and brought it all the way to the Canaries for
us, the pudding was devoured at Christmas lunch and the cake hidden away and
rationed, last rations tomorrow.... always good to have something to look
forward to.
Skipper thinks I am sounding way too negative, I
have told him he can sit here and type if he wants to. I'd love to say I'm
having heaps of fun out here and enjoying every minute but honestly I'm getting
by, it's ok but I would much rather be where we were last New Year and thats
having fun skiing in Switzerland!!!
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