Sweetest Thing
Anthony Richards
Tue 15 Dec 2009 22:45
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18 40.447n
65 21.594w
We slipped our berth in Red Hook, St Thomas at 1740
UTC
Vectran appears to be regarded as a foreign
language item and the choice was Dyneema or Dyneema and I have bought a
length of that plus spare. Anxious to get going as quickly as possible I did not
effect the replacement whilst we were in Red Hook. Having had only a couple
of hours sleep last night to see us into the islands safely, I was too
exhausted to cope with the boisterous conditions outsdie the islands whilst
sorting the repair, so it will be done tomorrow.
Our forecast indicates a few days of very light
winds so we have taken on a full tank of fuel, double what I had planned, so
that we can keep the miles ticking over at higher, though less economic, revs
and ensure our arrival in Miami on 21st for handover on 22nd (pm).
On Monday afternoon we had our third sighting of
the same whale species we had seen on the two previous occasions. I am not
sure which is less credible - that we should see the same individual whale three
times over a distance of 750 miles or that we should see three solitary examples
of the same species over that distance and
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