Carolina - Richard Clark/David Feltham
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Nearly there...
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Thu, 30/06/2011 - 04:40Good morning, its 4am on Thursday and we are 17
miles ssw of the Manacles (some rocks south of Falmouth) and 23 miles from
the finish line, or about 4 hours and 5 hours from a sit down full english in
one of the cafes by the Maritine Museum.
Save the best till last....
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Wed, 29/06/2011 - 08:28Yesteday afternoon and night were fantastic,
firstly in the afternoon we had a multiple visits from Dolphins, the last
pod must have been 20 strong queueing up to play in Carolina's bow wave and
cutting close across the bows.
Flat out!!
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Tue, 28/06/2011 - 16:07We have the pedal to the metal, poor old Carolina
she is nearly 40 years old and we are giving her a hard time, but she is a
Contessa and she can take it.
Tuesday morning
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Tue, 28/06/2011 - 08:13Feeling pretty tired must be the pressure,Paul let
us know that we were still leading IRC1 last night (thanks Paul), havent had any
uodates this morning I suspect you have all been in bed, while we have been
trimming and trying to find our why there is an occassional loud bang from where
the kicker joins t
Pizza Express
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Mon, 27/06/2011 - 21:11Monday evening and keep your fingers crossed for us
on a number of counts. Tonight we ate a frozen pizza that was bought last Monday
and has been in the cold box that became the warm box about 4 days ago.
Some days are awkward
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Mon, 27/06/2011 - 14:17Some days are easy some days arent, today is an
awkward day. Last night we battled to keep boat speed in very light winds, then
at 6am this morning a front came through (cold I think) and within minutes we
were crashing into 18 knts with full sail.
Its sooo frustrating
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Sun, 26/06/2011 - 22:02Sunday night and we have just enjoyed Davids North
Atlantic old cooked sausage and vegetable stew, which was really quite nice and
made the old Azorean sausages quite edible.
Early Sunday morning about 1/2 way
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Sun, 26/06/2011 - 06:25Its 04:47 on Sunday morning and we are waiting for
a veer in the wind that should have been here by now according to the gribs
(weather files) I am very pleased that its delayed as we have kept the pink
spinnaker all night again from 11am yesterday morning and have made good
progress., unfortunately so hav
Position tables
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Sat, 25/06/2011 - 06:04I would like to clarify thye situation with the
position tables as it can seriously mess with your head or at least mine. One
minute you alre leading and the next you are nearly last.
Tricky situation
Submitted by Rclark1977 on Fri, 24/06/2011 - 14:26Sorry about the delay today but the mailasail
server went down early this morning, it cost me valuable satellite minutes to
phone them and find out. You cant escape IT problems even out here, maybe that
says something? Anyway, we are still marching on under spinnaker which on the
whole is behaving itself.
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