Day 5 to St Helena
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 1 Feb 2020 06:00
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Day Five to St
Helena
Pleased to say when I
got up this morning there was no repeat of the muesli jumping experience but
filleting Bear’s pawpaw seemed to take a long time.
We have now ‘gone’ north three
hundred and seventy-five miles and five hundred miles west, the pleasure this
brings is less clothing required. The first night being so very bundled up has
thankfully passed. I no longer need over sweat trousers or the second sweatshirt
– in fact my sweatshirt only goes on at four in the morning for a couple of
hours until bedtime.
Weird though, Bear asked me to call
him at a quarter to six and we both remarked on how dark it still
was.
 Our very poorly, faded South African flag came
down, may have to replace it if we ever decide to display our collection of
national flags..
Late morning I suffered a five four
defeat on the backgammon battlefield. Every wave seems to roll his dice just
right for a massive number of doubles, just as he needs them. Growling. Yes, but I win and you go up in money. Well, the only canny thing I can do is gamble.......still growling
though.
The lunch debacle with the pie and
gravy was replaced by a military manoeuvre. Bear handed out to the cockpit the
makings of egg salad, I peeled and chopped whilst seated with no incident at
all. Must do that again then. Well, until the eggs run
out. Thank you for that Sherlock.
 I loved coming on at 02:00 to find
no ships anywhere. Just us
kids then. Such a wonderful change from the likes of Malaysia and
Sri Lanka, to name but two, where we had to stare out the whole time in search
of unlit fishermen and sometimes bigger ones to. Miss the odd chum
though.
At six this morning
we had covered 124.0 nmiles.
Total completed 601.6
nautical miles.
ALL IN
ALL STEADY PROGRESS
LOVELY SUNNY
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