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Sweetest Thing
Anthony Richards
Thu 24 Mar 2011 12:27
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Wednesday evening,
Its all very calm, i just watched a very bizarre
sunset with no clouds in the sky, just a big orange sun dissappear behind the
horizon, and now we have a rainbow effect speading from red at the horizon to an
indigo sky... its lovely very serene.. the wind is right behind us and has
dropped to barely a force 1, the swell, even though its still 1.5 metres is in a
big roll now so the motion is lovely will rock me to sleep nicely i
feel.
Today has been a busy day, I did the engine check
on both engines, (just call me Lex the Mechanic!!) and you will be happy to hear
they both seem to be in good condition.
then i ciffed all the stainless steel... yesterday
whilst making Spag Bol we went over a big bit of swell and crashed down just as
i was opening a tin of tomatoes, ouch.. i cut my hand on the tin...not badly but
enough that it made rubbing Cif on salty stainless steel a little
painful...
In other news, the list of things overboard is now
1 dustpan brush and one bucket... I did say we should tie the bucket on
when we use it because otherwise when you go over a wave and it catches it
will pull you over or you let know.. i speak from experience...but did the
boys listen to me?? no!?! anyway i think as it was greg that dropped both
objects i think he's buying the first round of beers when we hit american
soil..
Other interesting facts, Anthony saw a ship!!!!
last night on watch, the last one we saw was 7 days
ago...
Anthony has been making bread... today was his
third attempt and I think its fair to say he has nailed it... loaf 1 he
forgot to put the salt in so it was nice but didnt have that flavour factor..
loaf 2 was a bit wet dough and as a result came out still a bit stodgy and
doughy in places, but loaf 3... well just call him Mr Warburton because it is
delicious, we had a slice with butter (or apricot jam if you prefer) with our
afternoon tea and it was yummy scrummy!!!!
phew what a lot of news... tomorrow ill try
to keep it short...Love to all..
x
Thursday
Piccadilly Circus here!!! Another ship, also headed
east, last night and then this morning a big RoRo ship headed west. I think we
are on the shipping equivalent of the 15 bus route - nothing for ages then they
all come at once!
We are skirting round the south side of a big low
which had brought us a fairly overcast day today.
Big treat for lunch today - Alexa is making us Soup
de Poisson plus bread followed by stuffed jacket potatoes. Good job because
today is a 25 hour day - we are changing the ship's clocks today. Greg has
pulled the short straw and is doing the extra hour in his lunchtime watch (I did
it last time, and get to put my feet up this time!)
Position at 1200 UTC 24 March
27 27.028n
041 19.834w
24 hour run 134 nm
Wind SSW F3 |