Force 10 Again! - Day 13
A really horrid wet day,which the bedraggled XLNT spent mostly below. We played a lot of Rummy (Archie is still winning most of the time) while the stalwart Andy took the brunt of it and was drenched in the Cockpit most of the day. THEN in the evening things took a decided turn for the worst. Between 8pm and 12 pm Liz and Rupert spotted a bit of lightning on their watch and Liz insisted that they put a mobile phone ipad and the satellite receiver in the oven in case of a lightning strike. On the second watch all hell broke loose... the winds got up, a phenomenal amount of rain came down and lightning and thunder was all around us leaving 5 of the 6 crew members battling the elements!!, reefing the sails etc. The sixth member of the crew she is ashamed to stay slept through most of this and then grumpily woke up and asked them to be quiet - not her finest moment.