It's Friday, we're in Love.......
andromeda of plymouth
Susan and Andrew Wilson
Fri 23 May 2014 18:08
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First off today Happy 63rd Wedding Anniversary,
Virginia and Brian, aka Susan's Mum and Dad, we shall give you a call
later......
We have decided we must be in love with our
lifestyle, although at times you do wonder why? Obviously we joined ARC Europe
to sail in company, well at least at the beginnings of the legs and then of
course there are the opportunities ashore to get to know a group of people
better and maybe make life long friends. We have certainly made many
friends on the rallies we have taken part in so far and it is great when we
get together to reminise. Many new friends are made in the ports that are
called into as well, and there is always the pleasure in arriving somewhere to
find you know a few folk. Great friends are treaures though and they are
the ones you know you can call on if you need some help. We have been
fortunate to come across so many great people who we will continue to keep in
contact with no matter what we are doing. However Ian did make the point that
perhaps we should be paid not to join in the future!
So what is to love about the last 24
hours.....well, after we managed to throw a 6 (Ocean Trader)
we managed to get out of the Cat's Whiskers as the wind did come
in quite well and we have been making reasonable progress, certainly compared
with the previous 24 hours.. Wedneday Noon to Thursday Noon we had managed to
cover the grand total of 28.3 miles over the ground, from Noon yesterday to
today dah dah dah..we have covered 86.2 nearly just over 3 times as
many, great. I should like to point out here that we generally consider that we
can cover 120 miles during a normal day's sailing...though I think from here on
in we are going to revise that to 100, you can probably work out why. If its a
100, we did 86 percent yesterday....whoo hoo. And whilst we are on the figures
we now have less than 1/6, 2/10,1/5,/1/7 or about 15%, to go we
really are getting there. There are currently two scenarios. If the
wind stays as it is with the rolling sea and direction we will get to Bermuda on
Sunday. We intend to make landfall in daylight so may find ourselves
actually trying ( and here's irony for you) to slow down for the last part....If
the wind comes round for a better point of sailing and we can speed up a bit I
might just get in tomorrow afternoon......we will keep you posted.
On the domestic front yesterday was a great day for
getting some washing dry only to get it soaked again last night....well it keeps
us busy. Catering is fun as we ring the changes and last night had good
old fashioned bangers and mash and beans.....very good to eat one handed, in a
sneak preview I think we will have meatballs tonight.
Wildlife - well the shearwaters come and go but a
little while ago a brown noddy came by and hovered beautifully right on the prot
side. A beautiful sight and as he did this several times and we are hoping
to have got a kodak moment. We are going to have lots of photo's to look
at in Port. Other that that we are always on whale and dolphin alert as it
is always a delight to catch sight of these creatures.
As for the times in between these things well apart
form catching a snooze at regular intervals and thinking up titles for our blogs
(I am sure you have worked out the currrent theme) we rack out brains for
forgotten trivia, e.g.. there is a rock video we have really liked for years,
where a band got their fans to record them selves miming along to one of
their tracks then send it ith them. They put a compilation together
and we love all of it and really laugh at the caravan bit. We have
been racking our minds about the title and earlier this morning it popped
into my head.....its by Feeder and we call it 'All by myself' but know
that's not wthe official track name, so if any one can put us out of our
misery it would be great.
More in due course....
Andrew & Susan
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