Second day and some like it hot it seems
andromeda of plymouth
Susan and Andrew Wilson
Tue 23 Nov 2010 22:37
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Good morning everyone out there in Internet land.
This is mine (Nick's) first blog, and apologies for near inevitable references
that'll creep in - this is me after all. To cut a long story short (too late) we
begin.
Also; I realised this morning I'm dressed like L at
the moment. Only I can't adopt his posture for a second without falling
backwards - still an amusing thought for some of you (and it is suprisingly cool
today - it was very warm all yesterday, but after wrapping up warm for last
night's watch I haven't felt sufficiently uncomfortable enough to ditch the
long-sleeves. Also my hair is in a braid, which sounds decidedly un-L like, so
I'm possibly more of a cross between him and China. Or maybe Ranma if that made
no sense. Also Keitaro. With long hair. I don't think this makes sense
anymore.
Sleeping on the boat is both odd and familiar for
some reason; inside it's not entirely dissimilar to being on a train. Sleeping
in four hour blocks on the other hand will definitely take some getting used to.
And for the curious; I do slightly unexpectedly have a source of my preferred
caffeinated beverage... at least for now.
Despite my expectations, there has been a fair
amount of see so far. Well, other boats which we have to keep checking on to
make sure that we don't wind up at exactly the same co-ordinates as they do. Oh,
and dolphins. It's one of those cliches; seeing dolphins in the wild was a
strangely fascinating experience - not that it started well as I noticed a grey
shape coming up out of the depths - and there are so many Lovecraftian
possibilities for that description. Fortunately it was in fact dolphins; I think
we saw 5 total, and they swam quite happily around the boat and making the
occasional jump (we have no hoop and none of them whistled so we're fairly sure
they're not leaving the planet just yet). Dolphins also turn out to be somewhat
frustrating to photograph and we may well only have patches of water that did
until a few millionths of a second ago contain an actual dolphin. We've got some
quite nice shots of water that did in fact formerly contain dolphins - which
might be deemed sufficient.
Touching on the Lovecraftian aquatic monstrosities;
our depth reading when it can no longer figure out the depth of the ocean will
display the last known depth and a legend "Last". You'd think the number would
be fairly high, but slightly disquietingly it keeps shifting up and down, so our
last known depth looks a fairly rubbish 3.0 meters at the moment. On the other
hand this does not preclude the possibility that we were inf act three meters
above Cthulhu, Dagon or Mother Hydra's heads (it's not Azathoth. At least I
don't think it is. He rarely lurks in oceans.
Our experiments with fishing have proven
unsuccessful to date; or rather not as successful as we'd like; we've had two
bites - this we're certain of, but the end result of both attempts has resulting
in a severed line and the loss of the lure. Consensus is that we may well have
caught something, but something larger then consumed it. (Cthulhu is in the
Pacific not the Atlanctic right?).
Some minor panic this morning saw us all raised
from slumber to bring the Parasail in 21 knots of wind, making the boat
difficult to control. We then changed back to the more traditional sails and
have remained on them since. Hope everyone's well, and I think everyone knows
how to get in touch with any of us if they need to (or want to).
Tune in next week for the rather more thrilling
Andromeda vs The World Crime League.
Nick
S/V Andromeda
P.S. We have had some technical challenges so are a
little off the fleet at present......
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