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AT ANCHOR IN SENO ICEBERG

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45m luxury ketch-rigged sailing superyacht

AT ANCHOR IN SENO ICEBERG

January 18, 2011 | Author admin

POSITION: 48 41S 074 07W.

Sorry about the mix up in dates in the last report. We left Puerto Montt on Saturday 15th and the report went out on Sunday 16th not 17th as I wrote.

We left Caleta Perez at first light and carried on down the narrow channels but then got a gale warning over the radio. Within half and hour it was blowing between 30 and 40 knots, we had a reefed main and staysail and a great sail in flat waters. Our forecast continued to say that the weather was OK out at sea so we kept going, the gale died down to 25 knots and we were well on our way out at sea by nightfall.

Coming through the maze of islands it was intriguing to see the names. Just next to each other are Seno Cornish and Boca Wickham (We have Captain Cornish and his girlfriend on board, Jordi Wickham) and not far away is Isla McPherson, the same name as the deckhand. Today we are close to English Narrows and the mate is John Paul English so I guess some of our ancestors must have passed this way. Quite a coincidence.

Once clear of the land we saw lots of bird life and were visited by several Great Wandering Albatross as well as shearwaters and petrels. Just as we were bouncing along all up in the pilot house having dinner a huge blue whale surfaced not even 100 yards from the boat. What a sight! We also had visits from lots of dolphins and a sea lion.

The Gulf lived up to it’s bad reputation and the going was bumpy with lots of rain and confused seas. We had up a reefed main and genoa so were able to sail some of the time but it was coming and going. At 0230 a squall came through with a major wind shift and the mainsail gibed over breaking a batten and ripping the sail. We all got called out, got the sail down and continued on to shelter in Canal Messier using the mizzen and genoa to steady the uncomfortable ride.

We are now anchored in a spectacular anchorage in pouring rain sewing the mainsail on deck. It is a big job so we will probably be delayed a while here but then make up time on the rest of the trip down with another overnight passage or two.

Will keep you updated.

Phil and the crew

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