An eventful (ish) Day. No major issues - a major event in itself. The parasailor was up all night - even though we dropped to zero wind on occasions. On the whole, wind has faded now to 10 Knots
, still good enough to push us on though. We still hope for 15!
Not a curry or chilli in sight last night as Rob prepared his pork with three mustards pasta dish....OK, now mustard instead of Chilli's but still very good and team spirits high for the night shift.
After dinner, Chris and Jon had a swim as the wind had dropped - even though we were floating along at 2 knots. Fortunately we had a swim line in the water so they could then drag themselves back. Then the big event. We lowered Jon over the side to poke out the stubborn lugged heads. Poking the seacock with the end of an old fishing rod did the trick and the plug was removed - Much to Jon's dismay and screams of "Get me out of here"!!! He was back on board faster than a rat up a drain pipe.....spirits raised again.
With a good moon we decided to keep the Parasailor up all night for the first time, and with a Harry working well all looked good. And it was, until the 3 - 6 Shift - mine (David's) as it happened. Line after line of squalls, the Parasailor flew well, until we got down to 1 knot of wind and rain, well I think it was rain (more like a bath) that had it hanging like a wet rag.Not so much singing as cursing in the rain. The wind soon came back though and onward we went with Harry happily in control.
On board life remains good with a great British Movie last night - Layered Cake. Nigel is catching up on all he has missed in UK films...In the day, Scrabble has now become king with the Skipper as the decider on word fights....not that he can spell!!!
Bring on Day 12!!
Harry was working well the P
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