Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Coordinates 9 March 2011 16:19 UTC

The tri came across the yacht Black Owl today!  She has two men and two women from England and Germany on board.  They are on their way to Salvador and have been to Madagascar, Port Elizabeth and St. Helena.  After Salvador her passengers intend to go to England.  

They must have been surprised when they saw the quaint "Energy Diet" boat!

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The team seem to be going off their intended route and did only 60 nm since this morning - still a respectable number but less than before - are they chasing the breeze?

On asking for more information they replied:
"wind different we change sails 1 spinaker  2 mane stagsail 3 mane cliver the wind fordewind not comfortable"
I learned from the Fordak group  that "fordewind" means "the wind coming from astern" ie being on a run.  


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