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Galley Essentials with Amanda


Bink, Will, Bill, John, JP, John C and Mary-Ann share Thanksgiving mid Atlantic.


A Memorable Atlantic


Thanksgiving by Amanda Swan Neal


LOG:


November 27, 2008, 2300 hours, 18.13 N, 052.30 W, Log: 122,630 miles


Close hauled at 6.5 kts in 9.5 kt shifty winds, a brilliant starry night! Baro: 1020.2, Cabin Temp: 75F, cockpit 70° F


It’s now only 542 miles until Antigua


as we’ve sailed 2,071 miles since leaving Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. But no one mentions that or seems in a hurry for the passage to end. In my mind, that certainly shows a crew that’s in tune with the moment and enjoying the passage. After nearly a week of light winds, that saw us frequently under cruising spinnaker or motorsailing more often than we ever wish to, we passed the southern tip of a weak cold front and the winds swung around to the north. Away we’re going, occasionally touching 8 knots in winds ranging 8-14 knots. Before the front we’d only experienced a couple of minor squalls with drizzle, no tropical downpours or erratic winds and not seen any tropical hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin. We have an extremely helpful, keen


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and happy crew this passage. When I dug out some old epoxy plugs in the teak decks (the teak plugs John had epoxied into place years earlier had worn down, leaving brown epoxy showing), Will offered to help drilling out the holes and setting new plugs in with polyurethane glue. As he and his wife Lara recently bought a 1983 Hallberg-Rassy 38, he was particularly interested in learning the techniques of replacing deck plugs. And when it was time to transfer fuel from jerry jugs to the main tank, Bill and Bink were ready to lend a patient and steady hand in the filtering process. During dinner last night JP asked, “Do all crews always get along as well as this?”


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