Tuesday 17 December 2013
Adina without a bit of drama on the finish line – not possible! To start, Skipper decides we must try and fish one last time as we approached land. What happens – we get a fish bite! Watch three men determined this trip will finish with a catch. Pulling it in by hand – it…
Tuesday 17 December 2013
Good morning from 16 nautical miles (18 land miles) off St.Lucia! Land has been sighted! Crew are all awake and currently trying on their Union Jack waist coats. Susie is making us some bacon sandwiches and fresh coffee is being brewed. Spirits are high. Skip has even deployed the fishing line one last time –…
Tuesday 17 December 2013
Day 22 Sunday, 48 odd hours to go, you want it to be 24 odd hours to go. You’re in that time zone where you want time to fly. But here and now you must still deal with big lumpy seas, squalls with big winds and rain that has you sprinting for your jacket. Adina…
Monday 16 December 2013
Day 21 and more Atlantic mountains and more wind. Minds are definitely swinging towards thoughts of the finish line – one moment thinking of the joy of making it, next moment the relief of making it! And more 40 knot squalls – one person tends to stay upstairs and steers the boat through high winds…
Saturday 14 December 2013
So Day 20 on Adina…golly it’s starting to feel like groundhog day! Where is that finish line?? Most used expression today had to be “Wow – look at that one!” in reference to yet another mountainous wave rising above the stern. Winds of 25 plus knots all day long and big Atlantic waves. On a…
Friday 13 December 2013
Day 19 – more wind, more lumpy sea. This is the real Atlantic. It’s good to have the wind but these seas are putting a lot of stress on all the yachts out here. One yacht has lost it’s mast. Picture taking your home and then putting it on the sea. Everything is shaken around…
Friday 13 December 2013
So we’ve got pots of wind now – sadly it’s right from astern of us so we are having to gybe (zig-zag) along our planned line to St.Lucia. That’ll mean a day or more extra to get to St.Lucia (factor that into your quiz answer from yesterday). At the moment the waves are too rolly…