Nachdem der Server für die Lobster-Emails streikt, bedurfte es der Hilfe von Ian Dickens, um an Infos von Bord zu kommen. Dazu kommt die PR-Premiere des Mädelstrips: ein Foto von Bord!I write to you from the festering humidity of a dry suit. 'Dry suit?' I hear you say. Why yes, the turquioise waters, clear blue skies and bikinis are a thing if the past and we are now being pummeled by the North Atlantic. It feels like we are sitting on a raging bull, bucking and rearing up then rolling and lurching. The cockpit is awash as each wave piles down the side decks and periodically a nasty bang can be heard as the boat drops of a mishapen wall of water. I can't say its particularly pleasant but a few years of experience tells me that all you can do is set the boat up properly, sit tight and try to keep smiling. So we have gone from 1 reef and the trinquette some hours ago to 3 reefs and the storm jib and had a little sing song whilst doing it! Sure we are being cautious with our sail plan but we are still making speeds of 9-10 knots and this is no race, we are here to get comfortable with this boat.
Last night we were treated to a viewing of a moonbow or lunar rainbow, something I have only ever seen once before. A perfect arch of silvers and greys but sadly there was no pot of gold at the end of it, trust me we looked! Anna, wearing a borrowed yellow oversized drysuit has been nicknamed Big Bird after the character in Seaseme Street as that is basically what she looks like minus a few feathers and I am just grumpy with my suit as it has a convieniently located mini dry zip for facilitating going for a pee if you are a boy, not much use to me!
So we look set to bounce around for another 12 hours before a calm patch and then another vicious little low. We are curremtly routing south of the rhum line to try and avoid the worst of this secondary system, todays 30+ knots is quite enough neither of us have the urge to go hunting for 40.
Position at 1500 UTC LAT 26 35.9N LONG 053 51.9W
A soggy Hannah & Anna
Foto: Hannah & Anna
