Parson Jack - We have reached half way

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Parson Jack - We're liking happy hour!

Happy hour getting longer, blog getting shorter!. read more...

Parson Jack - PJ Blog 3rd Dec

It is blisteringly hot now, how we all wish for cold wet days of England in December, yeah!We are on track heading straight for St Lucia; day 10 and a mere 1078 nautical miles to go.As a special treat last night we all had Chocolate Brownies, cooked by Craig drizzled with Baileys arent we sophisticated?Charlie Watch We had another encounter with a large ship wich passed 4 NM to our stern, close enough!Last night saw our first encounter with a squall, just off our starboard beam around 0300 it glowered at us as we watched it on our radar; they show up as a yellow thumb print on the screen and it came within 3 NM, at which point we put three reefs in, then for some inexplicable reason it decayed and by the time Lima came on watch it had disappeared; that's squalls for you.The wind;. read more...

Parson Jack - PJ Blog 4th Dec

The rest of yesterday was uneventful and hot, hot, hot. During happy hour we played trivial pursuit and as usual the boys; Charlie watch, cheated, beating the girls; Lima watch by a small margin and leaving the old gits; Delta watch for dead.However we did have another interesting night. Just before nightfall 1900 ship's time we noticed a huge weather system just off our starboard bow and being cautious by nature we decided to bear off to may be run parallel to it or pass it to the south, unfortunately it had a mind of its own and we eventually steered away from it keeping it to our stern. A major impact of such a large system was that it sucks air into itself thereby creating 20 to 25 knots winds on our port beam and since our sails are currently configured for down wind sailing i.e.. read more...

Parson Jack - Oh what a night!

Yesterday afternoon was once again hot and humid which led into another eventful nights sailing.  Things started off reasonably calm but by the change of watch at midnight things started to hot up.  Delta watch spent the next few hours dodging squalls as best they could but in the end were surrounded and so had no alternative but to ride on through them.  With heavily reefed sails we ploughed on through and thankfully came out the other side laughing like idiots and carrying around 9.5 knots of speed!  The game was on and David and Steve then started chasing down the squalls (full of bravado from the few fingers of Jamesons) to get the wind and keep up the average speed.  True to form, they managed to cover 34nm in one 4 hour stint - a record for this trip so far. By the time morning. read more...