Sailing around the World.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sat 12 Mar 2011 11:29
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FRIDAY 11th MARCH
2011
We generally had a slow night, crawling up along
the Brazilian coast, the wind ranged from 14 knots in the light
patches
to 36 knots in the squalls, and ocillated by as
much as 60 degrees.
Again, we passed a lot of fishermen , all with
their single bright white light on board, perhaps to attract the fish, but they
can
be seen for a long way offf. Some of
these boats are really small and a long way off shore, perhaps 15miles or so.
Brave men.
We read the emails during the morning and did the
blog, great to hear from Robbie Andrews again, along with Margaret
How,
Susan Mangan, Oyster, Arnaud, Richard, Larry
and Vera in N.Z. Stefan,and many others,
Keep the emails comming,
The wind kept comming and going all day and we kept
in contact with " Voyaguer" on the VHF.
We set a northerly course to take us away from the
coast as we want to be at least 100 miles off shore when we reach the Amazon
River.
We also think that there will be more wind to the
North.
We changed our rig set up many times during the day
as the wind kept changing, and it was too volitile to try
putting any spinniker ,
Lunch consisted of Aileens " Cottage Pie " again
today , and it tasted as good as yesterday.
We all took plenty of naps, or as Donal would say
..............zzzzzizzzzz
Actually , we had a great email from the said same
man a couple of days ago, and are happy to report he is doing well.
you may recall Donal had a crash on
his scooter in Roratonga, the Cook Islands, goish it seems so long ago now,
On that matter, here we are now on our last leg of
the rally, It seems so long ago when we left Crosser on our way to do this
event,
We really did not know what we were about to
experience, The sheer scale of the trip and the distances between
stops
almost looked impossible, now we think
nothing of sailing 2,000 miles.
We have sailed 31,500 miles since that faithfull
day we left Cork, 24th June 2009.
21.00hrs We have travelled 168 miles in the last 24
hrs,
We even had to do almost 2 hours motoring , never a
dull moment.
As darkness fell, we were goose winging nicely
along, happy out.
Skipper stood out onto the aft dect to look over
the awning , as we often do at night , view whats ahead, etc,
suddenly , this lovely sea bird that was roosting
on the awning flapped its wings and basically suggested to skipper to "buzz off
"
Skipper got a fright, not expecting this bird ,
especially on the awning, they often land on the Rib, or on top of the
mast
or perch on the crosstrees, but this is a first,
and, and, he remained there while the boss did his buisness .....
A cool Dude Bird....................
Around midnight, we had some lightning, very close
to the boat, but funny thing, no thunder....
We settled into the night once more,
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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