Position: 38N11 36W50
Another disaster.
We've run out of instant coffee.
And all we have is ground coffee.
But no coffee maker.
Have you seen the shenanigans that a Texan will go through to get his morning coffee.
We now have a pan on the stove heating water and coffee grounds. Then they'll strain it through the electric kettle.
Whatever.
We found a 4" squid on the sidedeck this morning. After looking at it for a few minutes. And taking a couple of pictures, we skewered it on a fishing hook and sent it for a swim. I'll get back to you if it snares us a bigger fish.
The 1.5 oz kite is still flying (and in one piece). We've had some good progress overnight.
But the gybe last night left something to be desired.
All had looked well on the initial hoist yesterday morning. All the sheets and guys looked correct and the kite was flying well. Only when we came to gybe did we find that the downhaul had been connected between the starboard sheet and guy and stopped the pole from coming back on the gybe. Fraught times. I should cocoa. So we had some knotty issues to sort out during a quite unstable point of sail. However the resourceful Anna managed to order us out of the mess.
Only 350 miles to go. But there is a hole in the wind between here and our destination. We do however have 150 miles of fuel. Hoorah.
I'll be home soon. I'm intending to take enough time in Horta to buy pressies, then I'm outa there.
DBM
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