Greeting from Ruby Rose,
750 miles from Las Palmas and we spent this morning preparing for a day of
loafing around and reading. we’ve had a couple of lazy days getting us back into
steady sleep patterns..
Firstly, our watt and sea generator isn't working properly. We think its a
wiring problem, and so we will rewire it tomorrow and see what the news is
there. Its a conduiting job which i hate. Never tried it at sea , so there's fun
and games to be had there.
In other news: we stupidly took the advice from Tomas from Parasailor about
our spinnaker halyards. He advocated a crane and block, not our system that has
worked flawlessly for 3 years. So off we trotted to Rolnautic (AKA the
richest man in Spain) and purchased blocks and shackles. Anyway, we
hoisted the Parasailor at 9am this morning. At 1pm the Halyard frayed through.
Parasailor now dragging through the sea. We will be having very stern words with
Tomas when we get hold of him.
So, much swearing and cursing. We eventually got the sail back on board.
However they are delicate little things and the parachute part and all its lines
full of catching points. Next came the emergency rig repair. So we sent Neil up
the mast to rig another Halyard. Nothing like watching your friend swinging 20m
up in the air to make you take stock of life.
Finally another hour on deck trying to take 125m2 of spinnakAer and
parachute and stuff it back into the snuffer ( which i may add seems to have
weird lines and pulleys throughout). However we hoisted it and it flies again.
No rips, it’s not inside out and its pulling us along nicely. We were lucky
there.
Anyway, we finally sat down to lunch and cast out our fishing lines. We’re
only using a small lure today, as with our luck we’ll end up catching
Orca.
We have little wind here, we have headed almost west on the Rhum line
and still only have 10 kts. However its better than the 40kt gust we
registered on the first night.
All our love,
Nick and Terysa