250 miles to go

Were all starting to get the bit de-mob happy right away because, if the winds stay strong as well as with us, you should be in Ireland upon Monday morning. That would meant it has usually taken us nine days to cranky the Atlantic, compared to the guess of 14. Were chasing down Cork as well as reckon if you get to Kinsale before 9am upon Monday you could take their podium place. But its 236 miles to Fastnet, afterwards another 40 miles from there, which is twenty-seven hours if you keep during 10kts. Its 2.35am vessel time now, which is 3.35 in Kinsale, so its going to be slicing it fine. Weve gybed the poled-out headsail the couple of times currently to get the many appropriate wind angle downwind towards Kinsale as well as the course is still 085 or 090 degrees, the same it has been for days. Today was the first dry day weve had in the whilst as well as the couple of of us even dared to go upon rug without our oilie jackets on. Obviously which was tempting fate as well as you got soaked by the wave. It was good to wear the single reduction layer, though. Generally Ive been wearing Henri Lloyd thermal layers (long-sleeved tip as well as leggings), Musto mid layers (fleece-lined padded salopettes), the Henri Lloyd alloy coupler as the mid-layer top, cotton socks, thick socks, Dubarry boots, oilskin coupler as well as trousers, lifejacket, Sealskin gloves as well as either sunglasses or the conduct torch. All which takes quite the lot of effort to get upon as well as off, generally the oilie jacket, which is the highest spec Henri Lloyd does as well as is the smock as well as very, really hard to get off. we have to squirm the waistband over my chest, lift the neck sign over my conduct afterwards lift upon the collar with my hands as well as try to get my arms out of the sleeves into the body to force it off. Its OK if we can get my elbows out of the sleeves; if not, Im stuck flailing around until someone stops shouting prolonged enough to take pity upon me as well as haul me out of it. All of which lo! t have k ept me warm as well as mainly dry (apart from the Sealskin gloves which have been many definitely not waterproof, which was the categorical reason we paid for them) though all the synthetic fabric coupled with sitting upon the wet rug for five days have total to means something Ive not suffered from for 30 years nappy rash. Its the common phenomenon upon the vessel as well as there have been revealing trails of medicated talc across the floors of the heads as well as toes of boots. Highlights of the day weere the mothers, Tom as well as Charlie, making pancakes upon the stove regulating the baking tray as an improvised frying vessel as well as guidance which there is such the thing as the moonbow. The full moon tonight is splendid similar to the spotlight (I even have the shadow) as well as Ritchie as well as Jeremy pronounced they saw what looked similar to the rainbow though the dim purple colour during 2am. we longed for it as well as wasnt convinced they werent having me upon though Jo reckons moonbeams actually exist. Ill have to google it when we get back to civilisation.

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