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Moondancer - Friday 13th



Friday 13th, that’s not a good start.

Hi to all you still following us on the blog. It seems to me that anybody with the mental stamina to continue reading this load of old rubbish day after day has all that’s required to do the ARC.

Its been a few days since our last blog as we’ve been very busy trying to get the boat St Lucia in one piece. The trade winds we’ve been praying for (thanks Sue) have come and we now have a constant 20kts of wind. The downside to lots of wind is the sea state which is confused at best but we’ve been clocking steady 165 mile days.

It was managements turn to prepare lunch yesterday, catering was at the helm and I was in my cabin when a big wave hits the boat. Management superman’s past my cabin into the heads wall. After a little groaning from management and sniggering from catering, I can confirm that no harm was done to the wall. Management was also fine if not a little bruised.

Sleep is a thing of the past with the combination of strong winds and breaking waves has meant the auto helm can’t cope and we’ve had to helm the boat morning, noon and night. The squalls have added to the work load with catering taking most of the flack. The squalls appear to like him. With the lack of sleep, tempers tend to rise quicker than normal and we’ve all spent time on the naughty step.

Our families arrived in St Lucia yesterday as our original idea was to complete the ARC in 18 days, well best laid plans and all that. All thing equal, we should be in St Lucia on Tuesday.
That’s about all for now folks as a squall looks like it’s about to hit.
Maintenance… one finger on deck in the dark at 03:42

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