More from the boat

this is the best sailing so far this trip - SW winds around 12-16 Kn.

We've managed to maintain 7 Kn peaking at 10.3 Kn - and the spinnaker is still flying. It's been up for about 30 hours.

 

Sorry for the duplicated blogs yesterday. This was a picnic - Problem In Chair Not In Computer !!

 

My Leatherman has been put to good use today; we've made a fishing handle from some wood we found under the cabin sole (floor). And the sawing and shaping was done using this very useful tool.

 

The radio is still not 100%. But people out there can hear us - faint but readable. So tomorrow we'll be turfing everything out of the aft locker AGAIN and looking inside the tuner unit. Hopefully there's a bad connection in there. Otherwise we'll have to send an intrepid explorer up the backstay to check connections further up!.

 

We've not fixed anything else today. But we have compiled a snagging list.

 

Sightings:

One ship carrying Liquid Gas, six dolphins which didn't wait around and six that came and jumped and frolicked (good word that) under the bow. No pix I'm afraid. I was driving again. !!!

The last pod came just as dinner arrived on the table. Everyone rushed upstairs to look, and when they went back down, one of the dinners was on the floor. Oops. Sorry Mike. Dinner was salt fish baked in salt. Delicious? Go figure!! 

 

There will be more days of sun and wind. Hopefully we'll be in the Azores in 4 or 5 days.

 

Thanks for sticking with us.

DBM