Trade Winds at last
20 January 2019 | 4 men in a boat
stephen foot
Before we embarked on this journey I asked Peter Sanders to make me a new spinnaker that would be manageable with one person on deck in 20 knots of wind. His immediate reaction was that I was mad - but that was exactly what he made us and we made full use of it last night. With a near full moon that was bright enough to read a newspaper by, we flew to the west - combining that all too rare combination of sailing at speed and in the right direction. There was the inevitable prep school humour about why we should suddenly experience this welcome boon and linking this to the last cabbage we started yesterday or the Baked Beans we had for supper. (Katy- it seems that Nick can eat baked beans after all - just so long as he cant see them!) Prior to the beans (accompanied by a rather fine Fray Bentos pie), we ate a little flash fried tuna with Horseradish sauce. Quite how Ian justifies eating fresh tuna in a porage of horseradish - but wont countenance lemon on the fish is well beyond us all and subject to much debate.
So this morning finds us some 200Nm to east of Antigua and rattling along at 6-7 knots with an expected arrival time in Antigua of Monday afternoon/ evening. The morning also finds Graham making eggy bread - which will use the second of the two Ciabata's that Nick made yesterday afternoon.