Team Greenings is now heading south-southwest and are close hauled in a nice 12 knots of breeze and we are making 18 knots apparent with a boat speed of 9 knots.
“Crime Watch” has just completed a slick racing Headsail change, where the only thing that wasn’t as I hoped was that I ended up on the grinder - he ho.
We have spent the morning heading west under the medium sized spinnaker (Code 2) until the wind veered southwest around 1600.
Then “Bay Watch” struck the spinnaker, having set the Yankee 2, and we tacked onto starboard and started our drive south to warmer climates.
A bit of realisation as words such as Celtic Sea, Nymph Bank, and Celtic Deep currently present on the chart plotter are going to slip behind us and be replaced with titles such as Iberia Basin and Seine Seamount as we work out our best routing south with the latest forecast coming in.
It’s going to be eleven months before we hear the comforting phrases such as “all ships, all ships, all ships, this is Milford Havan…” drift out from Channel 16 on the radio.
I mention Lucas Canga Ivica today for his great bread making skills. The galley smelt homely coming up to breakfast with the smell of freshly baked bread and coffee.
So, for those team members ashore awaiting to take their place on Greenings, those who are thinking of joining (Emma I know you’re one), and all our supporters, here are a couple of salty seadog “bits”. We have logged 427 nM since lifting line in Albert dock, and we have completed 4.2% of distance to the finish. Yesterday and today, 77% of our miles logged were distance made good towards the finish line. Best wishes to all.
Standing by this channel out.