Apologies for my lateness of delivery of my few lines, but I'm so enjoying the sedate relaxing sailing that I would have forgotten to blog if it wasn't for Mik reminding me.
As dawn arrived it was time to put up the second halyard on the Code 2 (medium weight) spinnaker, and we had the help from a Marvel superhero. Enter Spider-man who arrived on deck in full regalia, although I was somewhat surprised to see that he needed a climbing harness and two halyards to go aloft to the top of the mast. Once our red suited hero arrived back on deck I discovered that it was no less than birthday boy Cameron McCracken wearing his new birthday suit!
Well the pace is slow but we are moving! We are suffering
from the absence of our Code 1 (lightweight) spinnaker over this last
week. In the light winds it is a big step between our windseeker to our Code
2 (mediumweight) spinnaker. We have had Dare To Lead as a companion on the AIS for the last 18hrs, they
make a good measuring stick for performance and we appear to be keeping the
pace well.
Now just less than 100 miles left to go in this Forever Tropical Paradise Race
to Sanya, it seems an awful long time ago since the Le Mans start in the Great
Barrier Reef. It has been a very varied edition of the race series and I'm not
looking forward to the next upwind beat to pay back for all this downwind
sailing. But first we have the delights of Sanya just a few (hopefully)
hours away.
Now how are we doing against Dare To Lead...
Cheers Bob