Making great progress and getting ever increasingly more competitive both
within our own 3 watch teams and also with other ARC yachts after news of our
position yesterday (not that its a race, of course!). Spotted our first sealife
at sunset on wed evening as we were surrounded by a massive pod of very
playful dolphins putting on a fantastic show for us. Wed night was quite rough
with winds gusting up to 25 n’s. First attempt at cordon bleu cooking resulted
in some serious skating around the galley floor. Skipper John kindly covered Don
and Eilidh’s 4-8am watch so both could sleep off the dreaded lurgy. There’s been
a bit of water in the bilge that has to be pumped out once a day. More a
nuisance value. After all the work to achieve a dry boat the skipper is less
than happy so ends up struggling down one of the lockers and twisting
underneath the wheel to discover the rudder stock is leaking. The options
are to slow the boat down so the top of the rudder stock is out of the
water, stop the boat and try and fix the gland bobbing about on a rough sea or
to continue and pump the bilge when needed. As the leak is only minor and can’t
get any worse we decide to push on.
Eilidh