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Lydia - Leg 2 Day 9 - Green Ham & Eggs



Steady and reasonably fast progress has been made all day today but the downside has been that the favourable wind is accompanied by this wearing corkscrew motion, which sees the mast swing rapidly through 30+ degrees
either side of the vertical. Staying upright requires significant and almost continuous effort and, rather like being on low frequency wobble board 24 hrs a day, is probably the reason why we may be burning off some of
calories we're taking onboard. It's also the reason why most of the expletives in Lydia emanate from the galley or when (as has just happened to the blogist) precious beer or wine is spilled.

The day started with some confusion over what day & date it was. The source of the confusion may have been fat finger trouble when electronic watches were put back an hour yesterday. With the days blending into each other and the plotter occasionally slipping into 'Groundhog Mode' by winding its date back a day or two; it is sobering that it now requires the log or the blog to remind us what day of the week it is.

With no real excitement to break up the day attention has turned to routine tasks again. The sail repair is now complete and has been pronounced 'good as new'. However, almost in the same breath, advice was offered to the
skipper that we ought to get a sailmaker to take a look at it in St Lucia! The cure for the small diesel weep into the bilge wasn't one. So the Mk III version has now been installed to attempt to direct the drip into a plastic bottle. Watch this space for news of its effectiveness.

On the culinary front this blog post is being typed with the aroma of Chicken Rolly Polly bubbling away on the stove whose gimbals are being very well exercised. And for lunch today the last of the Las Palmas sliced ham was fried as a precaution because its colour was beginning to gear it up for a corrupted tribute to Dr Zeuss - Green Ham with Eggs. The eggs were egg mayonnaise and in fact everything seemed to need a lot of mayonnaise to help it on its way.

The midday position email revealed that Lydia was top of our league in her average speed in last 24hrs; proving that it helps if your velocity is both reasonable but also that it is directed towards the destination rather than tangential to it, as it was for a good part of the night before last.

The plotter tells us that we have less than 800 miles to go now and 2 Dec is still where the hot money is on our arrival at current rates. The weather forecast for next the next few days indicates we should be able to maintain
progress at or near present rates so we're all cautiously optimistic.


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