Ignorance is bliss?

Round the world record holding yachtswoman Dee Caffari aboard her Open 60 yacht Aviva with fellow sailor Brian Thompson. The pair are teaming up to compete in the Transat Jacques Vabre race between France and Costa Rica in early November. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday October 5, 2009. Photo credit should read: Chris Ison/PA Wire.

Aviva Thursday 12th November 2009 at 0825hrs GMT

It is difficult to write today as it is no bumpy. We have been through many squalls of 40 knots in the last night time hours. We were waiting to tack when the time was right like so many of our little group we have found ourselves sailing with. We knew it was right when we saw a little shift and
also in the position reports everyone else had also tacked, now we just needed a window of opportunity, that was a light patch tp do our manouevre in. I was grateful there are two of us because nothing seems so bad with two. 35 knots saw us tack and that was the last we knew about the wind as we no longer have a wand at the top of the mast. Ignorance is bliss and without the numbers the squalls were not as bad. The pitch dark squalls had some clear skies between them and we struggled with the stars through the cascades of sea water stinging our eyes. We were struggling to see stars from vessel lights or maybe we are just a little fatigued.

Dee and Brian

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