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Lancelot II - Lancelot II - Day 2 at sea



Date: 28th Nov 2012 11;30 UTC
Time: 09:00 UTC
Position: 25 16.24N 20’10.21W
SOG: 8-9 knots
COG: 240 approx
Weather: Scattered rain, clouds STILL!
Wind NW 10-15 knots
 
Hello all
 
Well we’ve had an exciting day since last report, with skipper Jacko taking the surfing speed record, now at 16.6 knots.
 
Conditions have continued very similar to yesterday, rather grey, cloudy, few passing showers, but with a healthy following wind.  Seas slightly quartering us, which gives a corkscrew to the motion, but this we expect to disappear as we enter the trades proper. Conditions overnight were especially good, and it was deemed appropriate to reef the main this morning at change of watch after the wind fairy gave us 35 knots following. (Others less charitable might see the reef as Jacko’s way of defending his record!)
 
Since then we have gybed onto port tack, expecting to make some distance south into the trades before sneaking around the bottom of a developing low ahead of us.
 
Passing traffic has been light, with two tankers and a close sighting of the Balmoral (Fred Olson?) overnight. There also is another yacht some miles away on our port quarter, as yet unidentified.
 
From all the crew – Jacko & Sam, with Ryan, Oscar, John, Neil, Pete, Jack
 
LULM
 



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