Tuesday 18th March
ROLLING ALONG!
Busy day for most people! Amongst other jobs people have been doing, JB has been making bread and cleaning the decks with Barry and Malcy although he has been relatively quiet on the engineering front recently he had a lot on today; repairing the deck wash pump, the generator and finally making the main function again after the boom slider broke as we were having dinner! Everyone was involved in this operation, which took along time as the main
got stuck in the mast and it was a painful and slow operation to get it out again!
We are making steady progress averaging about 7 knots, which isn't great considering we have a decent breeze, but the point of sailing at 120 degrees off the stern with the main and Yankee set isn't a great one for us! However
at the end of Tuesday we were about half way to the Marquesas and apparently in the middle of the fleet!
Altered our watches today so we are now 7 hours behind UK time and have to go back a further 2 ½ before we arrive in 8 to 10 days time!
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