Steve McCurry’s name may not ring a bell but his famous photograph of the the blue-eyed Afghan girl on the front cover of National Geographic may be more familiar. We’d love to use his shots in our brochures but they’re a bit out of our budget. We’ve just spent a lunch hour on his website. Personal favourite is the fruit stall on the boot of the car. http://www.stevemccurry.com/
It will not have escaped the notice of our more eagle-eyed readers that it’s been a few days now since we arrived in St Lucia and as yet there has been no final log! After taking a couple of days to recover from what was quite an eventful final day, I wasn’t convinced of the need for one, but I am assured by family that there are people across the globe waiting to hear how it all ended, so here we go!
If you want to know any aspect about a country then the CIA’s website is an unlikely (publicly available) source. Pop the name of the country into the search at the top website and go to ‘The World Factbook’ . I just looked up Peru and found they had 1,989 kilometres of railways and 3.06 million televisions! As for accuracy I’ll let you decide …. the address is http://www.cia.gov/
It felt like a school trip to be getting onto a bus with 12 Audley staff and setting off for London. I had been looking forward to seeing the Terracotta Warriors for months and they didn’t disappoint.
It’s amazing how the ocean can make the most rational of people superstitious! Within an hour of our arrival in St Lucia, we have to hand a completed rally declaration to the event organisers.
Well it looks like the Atlantic doesn’t want to let us go without a bit of a reminder of what she’s like – we’ve had a few showers this morning and one squall! So we’re definitely not there yet.
I think it’s safe to say that we have now had a few days of classic Trades sailing. It’s been pretty pleasant – running before a breeze of about 20 knots keeping up a speed of over 7 knots most of the time. Yesterday was a record 24hr run for us, making 168.2 nm at an average speed of just over 7 knots. We had the odd shower earlier in the day but most of the day was sunny with a fair amount of cloud about. We saw a couple of other yachts over the course of the day, one overhauling us at a distance of about half a mile.
Well yesterday was everything that the ARC is supposed to be about! After the poor start which I mentioned, things really brightened up. We had a whole day of sunshine, no rain that I know of, and were able to dry off our kit, open up the hatches and get lots of fresh air down below and generally enjoy the sailing.
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I hope so… I have a fairly long tether but the end was definitely in sight when I came off watch this morning, having spent 4 hours in the dark getting heavily rained on the whole time, under a sky completely covered in cloud.
I’m beginning to think my off-hand comment about taking on two of every creature before departing Las Palmas was not so far off the mark. After a false dawn yesterday (some sun, a few showers) last night was business as usual with heavy rain squalls and high winds (Rob had 2 Force 9 squalls…).
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