Oh No ...

Position 36N54 041W00

 

Disaster.

We spilt some tea in the cockpit this morning.

Someone must have knocked it over whilst we were pulling the ripped spinnaker down.

 

It was quite a rude awakening. Trucking along at ~8 Kn and then rrriiiiiippppppp.

Everyone was up on deck within a moment and we were quite quick at retrieving the kite.

It has ripped the edge tape from top to bottom, but it  is (hopefully) retrievable.

 

Then the engine wouldn't start. Bleeding and fettling the diesel system had that sorted within an hour.

So now we can get the batteries charged.

 

This early rising has left us all quite tired, so we have been topping up our tans.

 

And now we see that there is soon to be a big hole in the wind right in front of us. Turning left and heading north for a while should see us past it and up to 37N30 quite soon.

 

Just 4 (or 5 ) days still to run

We'll be there soon

 

DBM