LOG DAY 19 :: Brass Monkies
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 23 May 2012 19:35
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WEDNESDAY 23rd MAY
2012
Brrrrr, brrrrrr, brrrrr, Its blooming freezing
here, clear skies, 10 knots of wind from the NNW
and a bumpy sea, ohhhh , its so cold and its only
18.oohrs now,
We all have the winter woolies on at this stage and
the nights are so cold its like being in the Antartic.
Distance to our destination :-- 416
miles
Distance travelled
:- 1,474
miles
We are lead boat at present, but that really means
nothing, the final results will depend a lot on the
amount of motoring each boat has done over the
trip. however, so far we only used the engine on
our way out of Bermuda. but will have to use it a
lot over the next couple of days as the wind is expected
to go very light,
TUESDAY 22nd MAY ( yesterday )
The morning was cloudy and we had a good breeze
over 22 knots from the NW,
We also had an adverse current of 2 knots, In fact
we have had an adverse current almost the
entire journey so far, That alone would make
a differance of + or - 48 miles a day depending on
wether the current is with us or against us,
By evening time, the wind had increased and the
seas were very rough plus a big swell of 6m ,
All we could see at times was these huge walls of
water towering over us, but up we went and slid down the other side,
Despite the conditions, skipper managed a spegetti
bolognaise for dinner , served in our " doggy bowls"
A great invention , and soo usefull on the boat in
these rough conditions,
It was a wild night, well where we were anyway, S
& A had the first watch , D& V were on watch from 00.00hrs
to 04.00hrs, and then S & A again from 04.00hrs
to 08.00hrs,
WEDNESDAY 23 MAY ( today )
05.10hrs Skipper was on the bow sorting out some
ropes and things when the fishing rod sprang into life,
whrrrrrr, whrrrrr, whrrrrr, Oh my golly gosh
, a bloody fish now at this hour of the day and Denis in the
scratcher,
Skipper shot back the deck and grabbed the rod,
He is big enough and with about 100m of line it
took a lot of reeling to get him to the boat,
Its difficult to know if skipper or the fish was
more exhausted by the time we landed this specimen Tuna on board,
We recon he weighed about 16Lbs.. and a
fantastic catch,
The claening on the aft deck was a messy affair,
but at the end of it all, we had 18 beautifull cuts of TUNA
we put most away into the deep freeze and kept
enough out for dinner tonight, which is shortly,
Then we used 300L of water cleaning the decks of
blood & guts, yuch, and by the end of it all, one would never
have known that this was a fish shop a short while
earlier.
The seas flattened out for a few hours and then got
rough again, even though the wind is still very light,
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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