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| Here We Go Again! |
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| Written by Lin & Rachel at sea | |
| Sunday, 20 January 2008 | |
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Nicely rested and having enjoyed the sunshine and calmer seas, we’re now back to what we’ve experienced for most of this challenge. We received a weather forecast from Woodvale “Wind set to remain NE-ENE 18-23kts over next 92 hours.”
So settling into the night routine watching the most amazing sunset over dinner, the winds started to pick up. Not too worried at that stage as there was not a cloud in the sky – YET! Not too much later, Rachel who was on rowing shift came in early as the wind had blown in a huge black cloud and torrential downpour. Sitting this out until it passed, Rachel then went back out to finish her shift and the rest of the night we battled with slightly bigger seas but the benefit of moonshine to light them. However, by the early hours of the morning it all went mad out there. The wind has increased, the waves are huge, angry and have white tops and we have a lot of cloud cover with some of it tipping rain down. We have a bit of a problem with our speed of travel South at the moment too. The finish line is just North of N16.58.9 & W061.44.8 and we’ve been heading on that track really well so far but this new weather system appears to be more ENE than NE as is wizzing us South far too quickly – at this rate we’ll be heading to Brazil! We are currently only 13 n/miles North of the point we need to get to but still have 17 degrees West to cover. You’d think we’d be used to the weather conditions by now as it has been with us for most of the journey so far but the fact is it hurts and knocks the morale when you are being thrown around so much and having the most enormous waves landing on you every couple of minutes. Both of us finish each two hour session with every joint in our bodies aching, our skin sore from the salt water and our clothes soaked through – even our waterproof jackets are no longer waterproof! Still, we try to keep reminding ourselves of the nice days we had recently and we are now constantly longing to get to Antigua. So we’ll crack on and face whatever is thrown at us and look forward to the delights Antigua and getting home have to offer. Our congratulations go to the Pura Vida 4s team who finished the race yesterday. Quite funny when we’re still waiting to hear that we’ve crossed the 1,000nm to go point! Messages:- Thank you to Navigation News for featuring us in the magazine – all press coverage is great for us and the in particular the charity. Lynn Culver @ Pink Wishes – please pass on our best wishes to all the ladies at your next wellbeing day. Emma Finn – Some messages are getting through from you but I’m not sure all of them are. Difficult to tell from here! Anne Cox – Thank you for donating 200.00 to the charity too – if you send the money directly to them, please can you let them know its in relation to our challenge and then it will be registered against our target. Love & hugs, Lin & Rachel. |
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| Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 January 2008 ) |