Mark
On 16 June 2014, Yacht Alexandria left Shotley near Harwich and sailed round Britain, visiting Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland, the Hebrides and Orkneys. The whole trip took 6 weeks, covered 2200 miles, involved 20 crew changes and took on some of the most difficult tidal waters and hostile coastline..and the British weather. A Challenge to be proud of. This is our blog. https://www.justgiving.com/s-p-o/
Wednesday 25 June 2014
The snuffer technical team at work
Martin and Alastair rolled up their sleeves today to tackle a tear in the spinnaker snuffer without which unleashing the Beast would have been impossible. Thereafter it took them a mere hour to prepare the spinnaker for launching but it went up like a dream and with only a bit of encouragement untwisted itself. We had a glorious three quarters of an hour sailing under the kite before the wind died and we had to resort once again to the iron topsail. The photo shows the snufferettes at work.
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Well Martin the St Eds Stitchers will be pleased to have you as a new recruit, and Chapter have already adopted Snufferette as your new name!
ReplyDeleteYou all seem to be having a great time and I'm really jealous, I wish I'd been able to stay onboard longer.
Take care and enjoy