Wednesday, 26 October 2011

situation improving

Coordinates: 20 47 S 176 37 E
Bearing:176M
Boat Speed: 6.8
Wind Direction: ese
Wind Strength:20 to 28 x which did not work
Sea state: quite big swell and choppy cross sea

Crew health: great

We were tired today having hand steered in 3 hour spells for 34 hours by this afternoon. But now the wind and nasty seas have moderated we were able to set up the wind vane steering on the starboard rudder.
At present we are getting along well with yankee , staysail and a reefed main set - bit of a lumpy sea but good progress
When I turned on the laptop windows would not open and it advised an automatic fix which took ages and said sorry cant help
However I restarted it and now seems ok - what a relief
So all is well and we are ticking along ok

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