Fizz en route to Las Palmas - 3

31/10/2009 by admin.

Well, the last 24 hours have been very good, we have done 162 miles. We got all hands on deck yesterday morning to get the spinnaker up and had it flying right through to 17:00 last night, when we replaced it with the cruising chute which is easier to handle during the hours of darknes.The spinnaker hoist and retrieval went really well, no problems, so we have all gained a bit more confidance in handling the big coloured sails. The wind died on us at 0500 this morning so at the watch change, we brought the cruising chute down and put the engine on. Everyone has settled in well to the watch routine of staggered 3 hour watches so we will keep the same watch rota for the ARC.We now have 176 miles to go, so we are slightly ahead of schedule and should easily reach Las Palmas by 16:00 tomorrow. It’s 31′C outside , wall to wall sunshine. I will probably stop the boat for an hour this afternoon so we can do a spot of swimming. So if you don’t hear from us tomorrow, the swimming didn’t go well. Taffy has been remarkably quiet recently, I suspect a touch of mal de mer. However, I am sure we will see more of him when we get in sight of land tomorrow. John has been sharing his favorite music on his pink IPOD shuffle with the rst of the crew. The Specials and Bob Marley seem to figure prominently. We hope to put a combined playlist together for the ARC, which should make for interesting listening. The big discussion at the moment is what song we want to play when we arrive in St Lucia. Duran Duran “Rio” and Bob Marley “don’t worry about a thing” are the front runners at the moment. Looking forward to our first sight of land for 4 days tomorrow. Chris

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