Hang your bananas on the right side of the boat
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Tue 15 May 2012 22:40
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14:44.2S 156:05.8W 290 miles covered, 410 to
go
We are cruising along in 12 knots of wind,
making slow but steady progress towards Suwarrow.
Here are some extracts from the descriptions of
Suwarrow in "Charlie's Charts of Polynesia" and the "Moon Handbook of
the South Pacific".
So why exactly are we going there? Simply
because it is a part of the planned route. You can probably see from the
fleet positions that one boat in our group (Bronwyn) has decided to skip
Suwarrow but the other eight are headed in that direction. It would be
nice to get a stamp in our passports, but apparently the park warden who does
this is not in residence at this time of year. Anyway, we can stay there for three days and there will not
be any shoreside distractions, so maybe will will get around to cleaning off the
weed growing on Anastasia's bottom, if the sharks don't get too
nosy.
We are continually heading west and so we have been
in the habit of hanging our bananas on the starboard side (north facing) so they
are in the shade for most of the day. Yesterday Andrea pointed out that
this is having the opposite effect now we are in the southern hemisphere, where
north facing means sunny. Now the bananas are hanging in the shady
southern side.
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