Noon position
18:38.7N 30:22.6W
Day’s run a slightly
better 124nm, or an hour or so on a decent motorbike…
And there I was only
yesterday delighting you with tales of the flying fish, when today we discovered
one lying on the deck. I told you their re-entry left a bit to be desired, this
one couldn’t even find the sea again! It was as dead as a dodo of course, as it
had probably been lying on the deck for a while before we found it. You hear
tales of people doing a deck inspection in the morning and collecting dead
flying fish for breakfast, but unless they start appearing in larger numbers
we’ll be sticking with toast – there’s not a lot of meat on them as you can
see.
The wind picked up quite a bit last night so we’ve stuck
with the genoa since yesterday lunchtime, which is working OK and we actually
covered slightly more ground which is pleasing – still slower than anticipated
mind you, and at this rate another two weeks or so to Barbados which doesn’t
fill us with joy.
Still, the sun’s out
and the sea’s not too big so it could be
worse…
