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Mad Fish - Windward Work



We managed 130 miles yesterday. However, as the Azores lie exactly to windward, only 85 miles came off our distance to go. This is over 90 miles less than our best runs. What is fustrating is we are almost within motoring distance. However, we motor at low revs to save fuel and at that low power we wont be able to make good speed into the 8 knots of true wind and the small chop it has generated so we cant motor if we wanted to! Still, not much we can do other than tack on the big shifts and look for where the new wind will come from.

In the night we heard from our friends on a non ARC boat, Flying Circus. They left a day ahead of us and we crossed within a mile of them. Not bad when you take into account they have a First 40.7!

Fishing rod has been out. Caught a big tuna yesterday but it got off the hook just as we got the gaff near it! Made up for it by landing a smaller one this morning. Should make two very good size meals so the line has been reeled in. No point catching what you cant eat.

Looking forward to a 90 degree windshift and another 10 knots of it.

461 miles to go.
Russell

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