Thursday, August 26, 2010
A night of 2 halves.
As the sun set, the wind dropped to 5kts, with 90degree windshifts! Very intense trimming and helming, rotoating every 30min to stay fresh. Still we kept moving, occassionally down to just 2kts, sometimes up to 6.
Later in the night, the wind steadied to 12kts, and speed increased as we attempted every trick we knew to extract the best speed/height from playing around. A lovely dawn and sunrise over Banff oilfield as we passed oilships (is that what they're called?) pulling out of the ground whatever they can for the latest 4x4s.
Now we're steaming along at 7kts heding towards Burgen. We're waiting for the Westerly windshift that will take us up to Muggle Flugga, less than 250 miles away!
All,s well on Playing Around, oven and hob now fixed, though a few people did get a bit green trying to fix it. Now we can be assured of hot food at least for the next few days. This is the last day of 'fresh'
food (ie not dried), and it has remained frozen so far. In a strange way we're looking forward to the freeze-dried, though I'm sure that will be short lived and we'll be wishing for Allies home cooked again.
Day 2 we averaged 170miles, so we're still overall averaging over 200mile days. Now that's quick for a 40.7 offshore, and the longrange gribs are showing some downhill conditions once we get to Ireland. Can't wait to get off this uphill bumpy slog!
From PA crew
