Just off the coast at Bahia De Los Angeles, Golf of Mexico
Sorry no news for 3 day, sea sickness has taken a high toll!!!
Over the last 3 days....
No time for me to take to my bunk; heavy weight kite is up, sails are down; lighter weight kite is up, hurray we are racing through the night. Having taken a more westerly route out into the Great Pacific Ocean we are making great speed, at times 20knts.
Disaster strikes on 21 April, the kite is damaged, we change to our lightest kite and oh no it is caught on the forstay, the air is blue!! We are now sailing slowly under the main, staysail and yankee!
2 kites now fill the galley and sleeping area, time to get woolling.
To bed with a sea sickness patch behind my ear, this is my one long period of rest. The sleeping pattern is 4 hrs on 4hrs off 4hrs onthru the night = 12 hrs; then 6hrs on 6hrs off thru the day= 24hrs.
Back on watch again some food, fantastic! This will make you laugh Russ, sausage, mash, onions and cabbage!! There's no getting away from that meal!
We hoist the medium weight repaired kite and immediately Increasing our boat speed by 15-20 knots.
This damage may have cost us a podium, unless of course everybody else is having the same problems..
How do I feel!! If a boat had been passing yesterday I would have swam to it to get away from this nausea. I have never experienced anything like it, the headache, nausea and exhaustion causing disorientation is beyond description!
Still, almost back to 'normal' whatever the bloody hell that is!
Life on board ticks on by like a great grandfather clock. The only excitement being when the hour is struck and all hell lets loose for a few minutes and then back to sitting on the deck pulling the odd rope here and there, interspersed by the occasional shout, you call that sail trimmed, I could do better looking aft'.
That being our gently, spoken, Yorkshire, not keen on women, that bit is edited, brilliant Skipper.
Of course there are the half and quarter hour chimes to keep us on our toes.
Mealtimes are Brkfst 6am, Lunch 12, Dinner 6pm with as many cakes, biscuits and sweets you can eat in between! More about food in another blog.
Ta ta for now
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