16 – 24 Jan Ct to ST A good trip to St Helena, mostly great conditions and mostly sailing wing and wing. A few highlights included seeing a whale on our first night out, only about 40m from the boat as we were having sundowners. He was very close on the pt side. Then about 15mins later, we saw him again, this time off the stb bow. An event filled day on the 18th – we had dragged some debris that was stuck in our rudder and all was fine, it wasn’t affecting our steering or anything, so all was fine...until we changed tack. Then it must have moved in the rudder and suddenly our steering was very heavy. The electric auto helm couldn’t handle it. We tried moving it under motor, back and forward, but
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