Grummel, dieser Bericht blieb in den Emails hängen und hätte vor dem letzten kommen müssen, dafür sind die Bilder von Bord aktuell. Die Ankunft der Mädels ist für heute spät oder morgen angesetzt.Wow what a night. Speeds consistenly in double figures, loads of sparkling phosphoresence in the water and a course direct to Horta. We are now down to 580 miles to go and are keeping pace with a nice cheeky little band of pressure that is giving us 23-25 knots of wind from the south west. We are hoping to stay in this band of breeze until tomorrow morning when the wind looks set to drop to 15 knots but still from a favourable angle. So being realistic we should arrive in Horta Marina early on Tuesday morning, a little later than we had hoped but then we did spend a long time beating to windward, zig zagging our way to the the downwind fun bit and sailing a few extra miles in the process. But its all good, our qualifier is meant to be a good test in a range of conditions, as long as we can make the fresh water supply last we will arrive in Horta most certainly having met all the requirements of a GOR qualifying sail.
But what are two girls of the sea to do at the weekend. Well last night being friday we decided to let our hair down (not so easy when it is a matted mess) and crank up the tunes for a bit of a deck disco. This morning Anna had a good lie in and then we decided to treat ourselves to a curry for lunch. We have two sachets of curry on board with real bits of chicken in as a treat and today we ate the first accompanied of course by cous cous! As for tonight, well maybe a picnic under the stars...
Its pretty cold at night now. The boat gets full of condensation and we are living in a permanently damp state. Its not massively pleasant waking up warm but still soggy. We are down to our last sets of thermals, there had better be a laundrette in Horta! So we will leave you to enjoy your weekends, have a beer for us and we will continue pushing hard towards the Azores enjoying the fast and flat sailing :)
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Hannah & Anna
Fotos: Hannahs rechter Arm und der Selbstauslöser für die Nutella-und-Cola-Orgie.
