500 miles in 72 hours….and here come the head winds. Yes indeed, we've done extremely well but the grib files (on-line weather maps that we have downloaded from our satellite phone) are
indicating some pretty hectic weather over the next few days. Strong head winds for 2 days. We’re delighted to be still on route though as earlier we had a big scare as our engine didn't start. Flat battery and suddenly smoke from the engine. Not good 500 miles from land! We thought our starter motor was gone but after a couple of hours charging the battery from our trusty little Honda generator she kicked into life again. The dream is still alive.
The storms have arrived and although Jamie was convinced his luck had to change we are lying a hull and probably will do for the next 24 hours. This means that all sails are down, engine is off and we are waiting out the storm. This began with the stay sail halyard coming loose in the middle of a gale…..in the middle of the night. All fun stuff.
On the North of Disko 2013 expedition we had plenty soups and falafel mixes vacuum sealed.
There were a few left over that magically appeared on board fro North of Disko II.
I felt it was a soup day and emptied the contents of what I thought to be a chicken soup into a pot…..turned out to be a falafel mix. I would heartily recommend falafel soup with corned beef…..it went down well today anyhow!