Indian Ocean - Day 7
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Mon 8 Oct 2012 10:30
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15:56.5S 073:47.1E 1378 miles covered, 970
miles to go
Less than 1000 miles to go! Daniel says he
would walk the rest of the way. Or, rather, he would walk 500 miles and he
would walk 500 more ...
The waves are a bit more friendly today so we have
changed to a single reef in the mainsail and we have sped up
accordingly. Our average speed is 9.2 knots overall, so now we
only need to do about 8.1 knots for the rest of the way to arrive in time
to clear customs and then take Andrea out for dinner on her birthday (the
13th). The wind is expected to slacken off for a couple of days
but it is still achievable.
Today's headline news item concerns
provisioning. It was to be Bertie's special scrambled eggs for lunch, but
it turned out that all the eggs we got in Bali are bad. So we decided to
have beans instead but, horror of horrors, there was only one tin of Heinz beans
in the cupboard. Bertie and Estella had to have tomato chilli
beans.
I have proposed that we introduce an emergency bean
supply (to be kept alongside the emergency water supply) but various people
don't see the gravity of a situation where we have completely run out of
beans.
We are finding desiccated flying fish
everywhere. When they strike a hard object they shed a load of scales (a
shedload?) and Andrea is having to sweep up flying fish scales from the cabin
floor.
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