machurley22
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Fairwinds' Noon report Wed 09 May
Position 30deg 22'.5 N 014deg 41'.2W
100 nm from Calheta de Sebo, Isla Graciosa
188 nm from Calheta, Madeira
Left Graciosa 14.15 ysterday and had brilliant sailing for 12 hours, then ran out of wind. Kathy saw a whale spouting, and I saw its flukes as it sounded.
One other little snippet - discovered the new LED tricolour causes chronic VHF interference, so had to choose beteween lights and radio . . . went for lights, but will have to do something, maybe go back to the filament jobbie again - but not a job for at sea - there may be no wind but there is still a 1m crossed swell and with no sails up we are rolling quite a bit. (Can't motor sail - the main juist flogs)
Been motoring for 10 hours now, with not much prospect of wind. If we keep burning and turning at this rate it will be a night entry tomorrow night into a place we don't have a diagram or chart for, so we will probably have to slow down and bob about a bit to get there Friday morning.
All well with crew, although skipper only slept a couple of hours again.
Fairwinds out
Although a meet had been mooted it must now be improbable unless Matt decides to spend a fortnight partying in Horta. Not entirely improbable then I suppose.
Fairwinds' Noon report Wed 09 May
Position 30deg 22'.5 N 014deg 41'.2W
100 nm from Calheta de Sebo, Isla Graciosa
188 nm from Calheta, Madeira
Left Graciosa 14.15 ysterday and had brilliant sailing for 12 hours, then ran out of wind. Kathy saw a whale spouting, and I saw its flukes as it sounded.
One other little snippet - discovered the new LED tricolour causes chronic VHF interference, so had to choose beteween lights and radio . . . went for lights, but will have to do something, maybe go back to the filament jobbie again - but not a job for at sea - there may be no wind but there is still a 1m crossed swell and with no sails up we are rolling quite a bit. (Can't motor sail - the main juist flogs)
Been motoring for 10 hours now, with not much prospect of wind. If we keep burning and turning at this rate it will be a night entry tomorrow night into a place we don't have a diagram or chart for, so we will probably have to slow down and bob about a bit to get there Friday morning.
All well with crew, although skipper only slept a couple of hours again.
Fairwinds out
Although a meet had been mooted it must now be improbable unless Matt decides to spend a fortnight partying in Horta. Not entirely improbable then I suppose.