Just when we began to think we finally reached the blue water dream
conditions, we were sent a reminder to respect nature at all times!
Running downwind in 15/20knts with poled out genoa and 2 reefs at 5/6
kn,at 22.30hrs the wind climbed to 25/35 knots and changed
direction,30 deg either way, and bombed us with big swells. Spent most
of the night trying to tame the beast, and run dead downwind to avoid
sails backwinding, gybing, broaching etc while we reduced sail. At
times we were surfing down waves at 9/11kn, and poor Fred was having a
hell of a job trying to keep up! Could we have expected this? Did the
gribs predict it? Dont know because we have not had a grib reply for
4/5ays. Just got some gibberish from Amos about "tcp/bind problem
TCP/IP status 10046". Dont know what the hell it means, and who is
supposed to fix it! Have asked Chris to look into it and SMS grib
summary for next 3 days.
Best wishes to Yvonne and Jeremy for their departure !
Will share a beer in Salvador?
Meanwhile , we are now 22.16S,1.56E at 14.00hrs RSA, some
572 nm from Sts, doing 5/6 kn, and beginning to look forward to making
landfall in about 4 to 5 days.cheers for now, and please ask Nic not
to "predict that we will be in a nice place " for the next few
!days!
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