Well, not much progress, but we've had quite a night. Gradually yesterday the clouds built up and we had a bit of rain, and then squalls. Winds of 20 knots and quite big swells - no problem normally, but Camille was all over the place, nearly overtaking us at times. Then eventually, after dark, the bridle on their boat holding the towing rope broke. Nothing to be done in the dark, so we hove to for the night and waited for dawn.
This morning, with great difficulty we got the tow line in place again and are on our way, slowly and carefully. Geoff says that if he had any hairs left to go gray they would be. The trouble is that the only other option for these people is to abandon their boat which is horribly drastic. Kelsea diverted to stand by too last night, but then their auto helm packed up so they are on their way again hand steering for the last 60 miles. And we had thought we were nearly there!
It is a comfort for us to know that we have an emergency rudder, and also windvane as well as autohelm steering. Just imagine if either of these problems had occurred 1,000 miles away.
Anyway, our position at 17.30 GMT is 10 27 S and 137 45 W and 62 miles to go to the anchorage. We are going slowly, so will probably arrive in daylight tomorrow. Just keep fingers crossed that the weather is on our side and we don't have to spend another night hove to.
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