Sailing around the World, ( Presently at sea, the Arafura sea, northern Australia )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 22 Aug 2010 22:48
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SUNDAY 22nd
AUGUST 2010
00.30hrs, Distance travelled, 462
n miles
Wind .................20 / 25 knots E to ESE
Weather.............. moderate to flat sea, beautifull night
.
09.35hrs Radio call , nothing, but we
sent Eowyn our position by email.
We did see another yacht on the horizon, but could
not raise her on the radio/ VHF,, Later, it turned out the yacht was
" Grand Filou "
We tried some fishing, but the fish kept gobbling
our lures, so we gave up in the end as a bad job.
12.35 hrs It is such a pleasure to sail
with just the Parasail flying, " KITE " and we have covered another 201 n miles
in the last 24hrs.
Another beautifull Day.
We had last nights leftovers for lunch in the cockpit,
this was followed by more sunburning, naps, sipping water, and the usual things
one does at sea, read, and read more again.
the temperature is a nice 31 degrees,, but a bit humid..
17.35 We saw another yacht on the horizon, It
could not be one of our's , as no one in the fleet ( Except Gran Filou, and the
2 Sundeers, )
could keep up with the speed we were doing. and we
know that the Sundeers are still sailing up the great barrier reef at present,
so
its not one of them,
Then the radio crackled, and the yacht was in fact
" Arianne " cripes, how did she get there we asked ourselves, We never see
that boat
after the first hour or so, she is so slow,
BUT, always the but,,, It
turned out that she left " Thursday Island " one day ahead of
us,,, ahhhhhhhh well , that explains it all,
pheww
We moved the clocks to +9.30hrs UTC
As we sailed past Cape Don, the wind shifted all
over the place, so we had to drop the Kite, having flown it for over 2 days
without taking it
down to check the halyards or guy's
We had the company of " Gran Filou "
and "Arianne " as we passed Cape Don, and sailed towards
Darwin.
18.35hrs,, The wind almost vanished, just a mere
3.2knots, so we started the engine and motored along merrily, had 2 G&T's to
celebrate doing 2 consecutive days of over 200miles
per day.....
19 .30hrs We had a Tuna salad, made by
Mary,, we have to get rid of all fruit and veg before we hit Darwin. so today we
eat whats there
or chuck it into the sea.. ( Bio degradable
stufff)
21.00hrs,,, Night watches
:- 21,00hrs /
03.00hrs Niall and Mary
03.00hrs /
09.00hrs Stephen and Aileen.
Thats all
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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