Thursday, 10 August 2006
Day 4 - afternoon report
Jaguar Logic continues to make great progress now sailing along the Rhumb line to the next mark, Bull Rock. Most of the crew have recovered from their sea sickness and are settling down nicely into their respective watch systems. Mags has shouted at Peter (mate) for telling her how to do the washing up (I wouldn’t have liked to have been near that argument…) and they are all looking forward to Chicken Curry tonight for Dinner. Lots of high spirits onboard especially when they have been leading the class for some of the day, great going….. Pete/Pedro/Skipper has his Father looking at the website so often he can’t get any work done…I am sure a lot of you might be like that too!
Puma Logic had a tough night, lots of seasickness in the crew. They lost the steering for an hour during the night when a cable came off the quadrant, probably a throw back to having the rudder taken out on Monday just a few hours before the race start. Nothing however was broken. They headed south for an hour or so whilst it was fixed. Mother watch is busy preparing home made scones for Afternoon tea (with jam of course) and also looking forward to Chicken Curry for Dinner too. All is well now and skipper just about to take a nap. I think he might just deserve it!
Both Jaguar and Puma have taken miles off the leading yacht in class on the water, ‘Magnum’, and Philippe has definitely got the bit between his teeth now – he is going to get passed Magnum he says ‘come hell or high water’…..well I think they went through a bit of the hell part last night and they are definitely out on the water so watch this space!!
Update on Sara: she is probably sick to death of us all now; she is in good spirits and her Mum is on the way down to see her as I type. Philippe’s dad Graham popped in again to say hi this morning, and I spoke with her on the phone at lunchtime. The West Cornwall Hospital is a lovely small community hospital and I think Sara is now quite the local celebrity – she has her own room with en-suite and lots of people taking an interest in how she is doing! She was even in the Daily Telegraph today!
More news later……
Puma Logic had a tough night, lots of seasickness in the crew. They lost the steering for an hour during the night when a cable came off the quadrant, probably a throw back to having the rudder taken out on Monday just a few hours before the race start. Nothing however was broken. They headed south for an hour or so whilst it was fixed. Mother watch is busy preparing home made scones for Afternoon tea (with jam of course) and also looking forward to Chicken Curry for Dinner too. All is well now and skipper just about to take a nap. I think he might just deserve it!
Both Jaguar and Puma have taken miles off the leading yacht in class on the water, ‘Magnum’, and Philippe has definitely got the bit between his teeth now – he is going to get passed Magnum he says ‘come hell or high water’…..well I think they went through a bit of the hell part last night and they are definitely out on the water so watch this space!!
Update on Sara: she is probably sick to death of us all now; she is in good spirits and her Mum is on the way down to see her as I type. Philippe’s dad Graham popped in again to say hi this morning, and I spoke with her on the phone at lunchtime. The West Cornwall Hospital is a lovely small community hospital and I think Sara is now quite the local celebrity – she has her own room with en-suite and lots of people taking an interest in how she is doing! She was even in the Daily Telegraph today!
More news later……
posted by Sailing Logic at 4:49 PM
