Parasail



Around 3.30 we took the Parasailor down because of lack of wind. Then later in the morning around 5.30 a dark wall hit us and the wind went up to approx 35 knots. The boat got a good wash down and waves were building up locally so that we had to increase the response of the autopilot to keep the boat on course. For safety reasons we started both engines and i was sitting outside in the rain. The rain came from behind and despite the fact that i was sitting under the bimini roof i got soaking wet and cold.
When the sun was coming up and then wind had a steady 15 knots we directly put the Parsailor back up and now we are doing between 6 and 7 knots. Lets hope that this continues for a while.


Here is one of the 200 pictures we took today flying a Sutton Freeform matress kite and a Ricoh Caplio digital camera taking pictures every 5 seconds.The original snaps are COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL, this one here is just to small due to the bandwith of the line. I will upload better quality ones, once we are in St. Lucia.

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Unknown said…
Hello Lani, Chris, Michael and Andi,

Today’s pictures are looking really marvellous. Only few days are left and you are will reach you first major milestone. It looks really good and I am a little bit envious. I am looking forward to hear the full story from Andi.

I try to send you an email (db8us@winlink.org), but is was rejected .Now I try it again with the //WL2K command

Greeting from Thomas (Bochum)
December 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM
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