Over halfway
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Chris & Katie Russell
Fri 18 Aug 2017 09:34
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31:54.52N 11:34.68W
Another uneventful night passed by but unfortunately our
twinkling star lit sky from the night before was marred by cloud. Indeed we have
woken to grey skies and grey sea. This was not what was advertised and we have
lodged a complaint. It is still warm and quite humid so still shorts and t shirt
weather under our lifejackets
A slightly better 24 hours yesterday - 168 miles
versus 166 the 24 hours before and that means only some 214 to go. The loss
of our downwind sail means that our eta is now much later on Saturday evening so
we are hoping for fair winds from now on to get us there quickly
All good on board and well settled into our watch
routine of 2 hours on and 4 off except when we want to make major sail changes
of course when all 3 of us get involved
No sea life to report - birds, whales or dolphins -
and we have just been passed by our first big ship since the shipping lanes
going towards/outbound the Med. No fishing boats but we have heard them
chattering on the vhf radio. We haven't caught any fish either - but
you need to put the line out to do that!
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