Bay of Bengal - Day 3
Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Wed 5 Jan 2011 14:09
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07:11.231N 090:17.542E
Wednesday 5th January
We're still managing to sail at 6.5
knots but the sea state is still making it a very very rolly ride.
The lightweight headsail ripped in two
places, once in the night and once this morning. So the dakron has been out and
with me lowering the sail, Paul and Amy managed to complete the repairs. The
problem is because the sail is so thin and it doesn't have a UV protector strip
around the leech line, the sun has done it's damage and in places it is wearing
away.
The weather has caused some pretty mean
looking skys, morning, noon and night. But last night there was a particularly
spectacular sunset. I'm not sure if the pictures quite capture so you'll have to
take my word for it that it was beautiful.
  As the sun goes down in the
west the whole sky is splashed with orange, even the east
   Then we spotted the slither of
moon, a couple of hours later and it was gone, not that it would have provided
much light anyway
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