22,23 April 2012

Editors note - they are now 2011 kms plus one day (last posn missing) from CT towards St Helena - thats 67% of the way, including their initial delays. At their current rate - looks like landfall in 3 days (Thu 26 April in the afternoon, more or less . . .assuming 120 nm per day - which would make it a 14 day crossing - not bad considering time in Saldanha)

22 Apr 2012

Position 14:00hrs -1 SA  23 21.319S 001 36.577E

Rather uneventful day followed by some excitement in the evening. First was squalls on the horizon, which brought some wind - up to 26knots. Down spinnaker up genny. Squall passes think it will Ok so up spinnaker down genny. Clearing yes up spinnaker down jib. Oh hell not again down spinnaker up jib and that’sthe way we stayed for the restof the night. We are getting quite good with the spinnaker now.

Supper Pot roast beef roast potatoes and peas followed by fruit cake and custard.

23 Apr 2012

All the hectic wind of the previous night had died down, so hero Chris persuaded by Joyce decided to put the spinnaker up alone. I have had my exercise for the entire trip. Obviously it as too early as I lost the snuffer rope and had to partially drop it to retrieve it. As a result I got it snagged on the anchor and put a small tear in it. When Rob finally appeared we dropped the spinnaker and repaired the with sticky back and transferred 50lt of diesel to the starboard tank.

Crossed the Greenwich Meridian at 15:00hrs so halfway round the world to go.

Supper Stew followed by cake and custard.