Another night with little sleep. All night and today we have been battling 4m swell and wind from 26 to 32kts. The sea is quite choppy on top of the swell. This evening the swell dropped to 3m making it a little easier.
Tony hit top speed a few days ago of 8.6kts. While Emma has made a new Hull speed record. Emma was at the helm when she found herself surfing down an extra large wave at 10.6kts (32km).
Imagine is handling it fine. But at times there has been a couple of anxious looking faces as the waves hit the back of the boat.
Just before lunch while Iris was on shift a large wave started rolling just before hitting Imagine on the back quarter. The wave cleared the safety rails by about half a metre. Iris shrieked as the water poored into the cockpit. Within a minute the water had drained out of the cockpit leaving Iris standing in wet clothes. I was at the dry end of the cockpit. Luckily the air temperature is 32c and the water is 29c.
Other than that excitement the only thing to report is we have seen a few schools of flying fish.
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Tony hit top speed a few days ago of 8.6kts. While Emma has made a new Hull speed record. Emma was at the helm when she found herself surfing down an extra large wave at 10.6kts (32km).
Imagine is handling it fine. But at times there has been a couple of anxious looking faces as the waves hit the back of the boat.
Just before lunch while Iris was on shift a large wave started rolling just before hitting Imagine on the back quarter. The wave cleared the safety rails by about half a metre. Iris shrieked as the water poored into the cockpit. Within a minute the water had drained out of the cockpit leaving Iris standing in wet clothes. I was at the dry end of the cockpit. Luckily the air temperature is 32c and the water is 29c.
Other than that excitement the only thing to report is we have seen a few schools of flying fish.
Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.