Day eleven - slowly slowly catchee monkey...
Adonde
Neil & Tracy Batcheler
Fri 29 Dec 2006 16:29
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Noon position 18:19.8N 32:31.0W
Day's run a similar-to-yesterday 123nm
Not much to report today: no more
fish (haven't fished as we still have fresh meat etc, and the flying fish
are managing to hit the sea on landing), wind is still irritatingly just too
much for the gennaker (for cautious folks like us anyway) and not really enough
for the genoa, so slow progress being made. The ham of course is still
marvellous and the sun is still shining (25 degrees today). The boats in our
little fleet are all having trouble remaining in contact with each other as
there's a lot of interference on the radio despite trying various frequencies,
although we're just about managing to exchange position reports, but we can
still talk quite easily to "Lena", a Swedish yacht that seems to be travelling
at a similar speed to us and isn't too far away - we've never met them but
they sound nice enough! Lena is also heading to Barbados, along with Malarkey
who look like getting there some days before us - we left Las Palmas together
but they're hundreds of miles ahead of us now. Mind you Malarkey is a 47ft boat
with four on board and not handicapped by the weight of sausage we're
carrying.
We're fast running out of paperbacks, which is bad
news as I may have to resort to learning to play the guitar (again) or speaking
Spanish properly (again) once they've all gone. Mmm.
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