Saturday 28th NovemberCurrent Status – Moral of the Crew is good – things still breaking and being fixed - water maker not loving the swell.
Tina and Mark have to get up everynight at midnight and are
on deck until 03.00 they like it sailing
under the stars. I like being with them
– everyone is sleeping and my feeders are relaxed and happy. Every hour they go and write somethings in a
book – odd. Also they don’t look at me
as much as usual as they are always looking out. We
The halyard in just going around in the foil at the head of
the Genoa and so it will not furl and unfurl as it should – that is todays
problem – everyday there is something and just as the people seem to stop and
settle they seem to have another plan. This
mornings big idea was to use the Big Black scary sail – the wind had dropped
and they thought it was a good idea – there was a lot of mucking about with
more bits of string and then the flapping and banging I don’t like…that gave
them 2 knots extra and then the wind got up so 15 minutes later the sail was
down again. Humans are really, really
strange and I don’t think in my dogs life I will ever fully understand them.
Lottie has managed to get what she had been looking forward
to – a sunbathe on deck with her music
Nisse is having fun fixing things – the current things are –
the block on the first reef at the mast which exploded and had to be replaced,
the furler on the head of the Genoa which now seems to be stuck fast and the
only suggestion seems to be for one of them to go UP to have a look and cut it
down. I don’t like the sound of that as
my mum gets very anxious when people are going up the mast.
Mark has been working all morning on deck and putting up
sails and taking them down again.
Simon has been on watch since 6am and he has guided us
though ideas on weather and route – with the support of Andrew in Lagos – we
love Andrew and we miss him and Susan – Lagos now seems a long, long way behind
us.
Tina has been on deck and is now watching me write my blog –
normally I don’t let anyone see me as it is a bit odd watching a dog type – I
am a touch typist and can use all 20 toes which makes it pretty fast.
As I sign off it is 14.00 a beautiful afternoon mid Atlantic
– everyone is happy today and even though we are all being tested in different
ways we are all focused on the challenge of getting to Rodney Bay. Moral is good and I have enjoyed some of the
Parma Ham the feeders had with their Water Melon.
Just off to chat to one of those flying fish thingies – I like
them they tell great jokes! – but the feeders cannot hear them.
Our current address is 24.33.14N 33.31.92W (weird)