There was a minor kit breakage yesterday that needed attention (broken pole loop) so Jake and Des once again opened Pandora’s Box. Amongst the things escaping from the dreaded container there would appear to be a hydra from the tales of Ulysses. Sure enough every attempt to conquer one task yielded two more in its place. Fickle “Jennie” had another 4 hours of tests and analysis and even the tools themselves needed repair! As Des was stripping down the (brand new but non-functioning) Ryobi (yes you Ryobi!) angle grinder to clean the brushes I was considering offering him the benefits of my recall of Hellenic tales - I thought better of it - maybe suggesting to burn the stump of each freshly severed head on the hydra might not be the most useful advice to a man with a stripped down generator and some broken tools and sweat dripping off his nose. At close of play the rigging repairs were successful, but “Jennie” remains problematic.
We made good progress again in the last 24 hours, 155 miles closer to land, and are hoping that the wind stays with us for the next few days - latest forecasts indicate that this might be a possibility so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.
You might have noticed our log entries appearing a little later in the evening recently - we’re crossing time zones and our evenings now go dark at 8:30pm UK time so they have stretched a little. We’ll shift our clocks by an hour tomorrow so things don’t get too out of kilter, but the blogs might still appear later for you guys.
Not much other news from onboard today - though as I wrote this blog Nick was hit by a flying fish. Fortunately for the fish in question there wasn’t much meat on him so he was returned to the sea - to face whichever predator it was he was already desperately trying to escape.
Signing off now to get some rest before the night watch. Hope you all had a good weekend,
Alex & the NoStress Crew
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