Graham
12/12/2008, North Atlantic
The good news is
that the wind continues and we managed another day of 137 Nm over the past 24
hours. The sea has been interesting; a steady rocky motion, overlaid with a
large Atlantic swell from the NE which, at times, has appeared to be at least
15 feet high. Most of the time though, it has been around the 10 feet mark. It
is certainly impressive. We have had a few light showers, but nothing too
dramatic which is also good news. Given that today is Day 19 of our journey, we
had hoped to be in Saint Lucia by now, but the complete failure of this year's
trade winds to arrive in time for the ARC has added a significant time onto our
route. We now have about 680 Nm to go, and we are all looking forward to
arriving after what will probably be about 24 days at sea, our longest ever
passage for any of us. We had 2 egrets cadge a lift with us the other night and
managed to sit on our genoa sheet (rope, for the non-nautical) all night, asleep,
without falling off, which was very impressive! They then took off at sunrise,
circled the boat a few times before departing towards South America as far as
we could tell. Obviously looking for some warmer weather than Europe has to
offer at the moment. Mark T inadvertently donated a winch handle to the deep
last night, but other than that, no incidents to report....
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