" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the World, ( presently at sea )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 9 Apr 2010 18:17
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THURSDAY 8th
APRIL 2010
The big Catamaran " silver Cloud " left the fuel
dock during the night, having taken on board 20,000L of deseil,
A real strange looking vessel, Basically it was
built on two submarine type hulls below the water which housed the
engines,
the generators, and all her equipment,
06.00hrs We reversed up to the Fuel dock, and duly
got our allowence of 400L, we only had 400L left on baord, so
now we have a total of 800L plus 700L of
water in our water tank,
We paid 80 Euro's when we arrieved on the Islands
so this allows us take any amount of fuel on board at half price.
08.00hrs We re anchored in the bay and
decided not to leave untill we had lunch, as we do not want to arrieve in the
attolls
in the dark of night. It could prove
fatal.
12.00hrs We all went ashore and had a Tampura
lemon Chicken and rice in the local market , and it was as good as
you
could expect anywhere,
We had a long chat with David and Susan, from
Voyaguer, Aileen loves meeting Susan, as she is suffering for lack of female
company,
We also met Rui and Ulli , from " Thor V1
" Rui is a retired General from the Portaguse Air Force, and Ulli is
German,
Ulli is a half owner on " Thetis "
But, because he and the other half owner did not get on.. ....
he jumped ship onto " Thetis "
and will try to dispose of his share later,
Anyway, Rui and Ulli ( Ulrich ) seem to be
enjoying the trip together. well done guys,
Dreamcatcher ( the Hallberg Rassey 48 ) and
less than one year old is still having more problems,
this time his steering gear disentegrated and had
to use his emergancy tiller to finish the last leg.. Poor Charles and
Marie,
they have had a tough time with all the things that
have gone wrong on that boat, their whole trip has been destroyed.
and H.R. are ( it seems ) are washing their
hands of the whole affair.
Thats just not good enough, At least, even
with our 2002 model Oyster, Oyster Yachts always respond positivly to any of our
problems,
which are small in comparison to what others are
suffering and in particular " Dreamcatcher "
14.30hrs We raised anchor and sailed out of
Nuku Hiva, heading for the Tuamotu Archipeligo ,
These little Attolls are 460 miles SW and the wind
is fairly light, We are looking forward to this as we have seen as much
of
the Marquises Islands as needed, and they
were indeed Just Magnificant.....
18.00 hrs, We readjusted all our clocks and
watches by half an hour, so now we are 11 hours behind Ireland & the
UK
We are motor sailing now , as the wind is less than
9 knots abeam, we have the engine running at 1600revs.
Dusk saw lots of Dolphins, perhaps 30 or more,
always a great joy to have them around for the party,
Dinner was a mixture of letf over Sheppards pie and
Bock Choy, prepared by " Fats " himself. It was v. good. No
drink.......
The night watches
:----------- Stephen 21.00 hrs to 01.00hrs
Aileen
01.00hrs to 05.00hrs
Donal 05.00hrs to 09.00hrs
We had a good day today, and also the pleasure of
talking to Stefan and Sarah by the Skype phone, Great stuff.
Thats it for today,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde, (
skipper )
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