As I write this blog it’s a beautiful day and the sun is shining, I, not sure what the weather is doing where you are, but rest assured if it’s not sunny and dry it is somewhere else in the world.
For yesterdays evening entertainment we snapped the code 0 or spinnaker halyard at the top of the mast, throwing our code 0 into the 5000 metres of seawater below, acting like a huge dragging anchor. The sound of snapping and bending seems to be a daily occurrence, I can assure any readers it wasn’t bad preparation. It appears that the culprit for this little incident is chafe/chaff. Anyway, however it’s spelt, the rubbing of fabric and metal eventually means we gathered the very wet sail on board and now have new task to rig a new/old halyard inside the mast to get the code 0 up and running. I think it’s fair to,say that we are going to leave this task until the weather sorts itself out and calms down a bit.
The day was good and we made 126 miles over the 24 hour period. We have the winds coming from the NE and we can’t wait for it to come Easterly. We are fast approaching the 500 mile mark which is roughly 1/4 of the route.
We seem to have a nice pattern of weather winds and crew watches, all of which are really important.
Let’s see what tomorrow will bring us