Day 14/15
Position 11 January 2006 2033 GMT 17 degrees 56 mins North 45 degrees 17 mins West. Only 946.3 nautical miles to go. So we have broken the 1000 mile to go point so we had the chocolates the Goolka's bought me for my birthday (we're saving the worms for another day - thanks guys yummy). Unfortunately we have been a bit preoccupied for the last couple of days as one of the boats in our net group lost their rudder yesterday morning about 130 miles south of us. Boats tend to leave in groups when there is a weather window, in our group there 12 boats on crossing spread over 1000 miles but in daily contact via one boat who controls the 'net'. The two closest boats were called to standby and give assistance, this being our friends on Argonauta 1 and ourselves. After a couple of hours it was clear that Argonauta would make it to the position before us, so we reverted to our original course after clearing with the net control. Argonauta reached them early this morning and confirmed that all crew were well and working hard to rig some sort of temporary steering. Argonauta have since moved off and the next boat will make contact with them in the morning. In the interim we have all been able to offer support and advice through regular radio contact. An article we had on board has formed the basis of their latest attempt and Andrew spent alot of time going through the detail of this with them this morning. Other boats have assisted by making satellite telephone calls and sending emails on their behalf. All our thoughts are with them tonight as they spend their second night in this very rolling ocean without any control over their boat - it must be truly awful. Life on boat ReVision II has been a bit lumpy, bumpy and squally over the last couple of days but today we have had a glorious hot sunny day with only two squalls. We are getting to the point with the squalls that we are not giving them the satisfaction of ruining our day so just carry on with what we're doing after putting a bit of sail away - they will not win!! Oh and Andrew nearly got knocked out by a flying fish last night while sitting in the cockpit on watch - it just missed his head, smacked into the boom and landed at his feet. He had to wake me up to tell me about it - unfortunately still not big enough to eat so I went back to sleep.
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