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Shore note
"King of Shaves" Position
UPDATED TO SUNDAY NOON GMT
At 1200 hours GMT Sunday Oscar was at 41 45 N 66 26 W. This puts him 130 miles from the finish. He had very little wind over night but it had slightly filled in when we spoke at noon GMT Sunday. He has the A5 chute up and is doing 5.5 knots steering 220 degrees.
BLOG TUESDAY
Hello All and apologies for not writing for a few days, I guess the truth is that I didn’t want to make it sound like I was spending all my time fixing things as that seemed unprofessional and I didn’t want to whine about broken bits and pieces. However, in truth I am out here on a small boat, that I did a lot of work to last winter, but in retrospect I did too much in some areas and not enough in others and that has meant I have had lots of annoying and sometimes scary things to work out.
BOB BOB BOB. Nope, this isn’t a reprise of the Black Adder sketch about a woman called BOB, this is my position in the North Atlantic, King Of Shaves and I are BOB BOB BOBING about…! No wind, a long night and no wind and according to the GRIB files a while before we do get wind. I don’t know if the GRIB is accurate enough to but it says that 50 miles south there is an easterly and 50 miles north there is a northerly and I am hoping that the latter comes to me and I can trickle off into the distance!!
Thursday 1400
I had a great night Tuesday and into Wednesday morning, the wind was doing what I thought so I had sailed with the little A5 spinnaker all night and just took the header as I got it. This allowed me to keep speed on as the wind dropped and bought me down south a bit which I was happy to do. I’d like to get hooked into the leading pack so that was all fine.
Jib top and one reef in the main. 17 knots of true wind speed, steering a bit futher south (254 degrees) and position at 1600 hours was N47 51.751 W35 15.908. Overcast but waves have died down so a comfortable and fast sail. I will take the last reef out now. Still wearing my dry suit which REALLY needs a rest...!
BLOG Tuesday 8am
BLOG Monday 0700 hours
