Wind at Last - Gone Again

Thank goodness for a bit of wind… that lasted for 3 days and seems to have gone to lie down again. Lee and Sasha are doing well on board Kwela and had 3 great days of sailing; just over 100 miles on the 31st, 111 miles on the 01st and 140 miles on the 2nd and then the wind just died in the late afternoon and left them bobbing around again. Lee said that this has caused both of them to feel a bit seasick again (nausea but no vomiting) and they hope that the wind picks up again in the very near future.
Lee apologizes for not writing as much as she originally planned, but the communication systems are really a hit and go situation, and she admitted last night that every time she tries to type, she gets really nauseous.

With regards to the torn sail and how they are managing – they are currently sailing with the storm mainsail as well as the other sails that are used on a yacht. The proper mainsail has been glued and patched and they are busy sewing the patches on. According to Lee, it is a huge job and their hands are getting really sore.

Lee and Sasha are both doing really well and Lee’s spirits are still up, though she says that she is missing her animals tremendously. Hope they are missing her as much, but being animals, as long as their creature comforts are met, I don’t think they care. Shylock still gets on the bed every night and screams for a place to sleep, sees that Lee is not there to lie on and gets off. Somewhere in the middle of the night, he sneaks back on and sleeps with me, but we won’t tell Lee that. Samurai doesn’t care who is there or not, as long as he can get on the bed to go to sleep. Without Lee there he has a whole half of the bed to himself and still tries to push me over and claim more of the bed. Tiggie, as always, gets on and goes to sleep next to me – no problem there.

The time on the ocean is not getting to her as much as she originally thought that it would, but she does admit that it had only been 16 days so far and they still have at least another 30 to go. They are definitely sailing to Adelaide. This will take about 3000 miles of the journey and they are therefore still on track to make land towards the end of the first week of February 2012.

The last position update is from the 01st January and is 40 50S and 41 36E.

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Sasha’s blog is http://sailingsash.blogspot.com

Enjoy the last short working week until the end of March, and the next update should be distributed on Thursday morning.