Lazy Days
Beoga's Madventure
Henry and Marina Lupton
Fri 4 Dec 2009 19:38
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Quiet day today.
Wind was lght overnight but shifty. Marina got
drenched on her watch when a squall passed over. Mostly we were tweaking the
direction left and right by varyong amounts but generally staying on the same
settings. Its been the same all day. Sunny with light breeze never more than
15kts really.
Speed still limited by lack of a mainsail but we
are still making some prgress.
Lots of reading today and scrabble made an
appearance with the slowest game ever played. My fault it seems. Treat bag got a
hammering today too. Lots of stuff melting and sticking together.
No boats, whales, planes or anything really. Saw
two birds earlier and that was it.
It will be strange to start seeing those things
again in a few days time. its really strange to not see jets in the sky. You can
understand not seeing stuff on the water given the waves and how hard it is to
see a sailboat. Havent seen anything on raydar either though.
Its about 700 miles to go - about a lap of Ireland
but in pleasant conditions.
All are well and relaxed. Sleeping lots and
generally chilled out.
Will find out if we might get some extra wind when
we log on in a few minutes but it looked light for another 24hrs in yesterdays
forecast.
There are a few weather bouys anchored in the ocean
about half way from here to the islands so we have put them in the gps and will
need to watch out for them - they are anchored in 4 kilometers of
water!!!
No bites on the fishing line yet so we opened a tin
of tuna instead.
No more news here im afraid.
Presently at 17:53.122N 49:32.393W
Message from Lara below:
Hi Jason, just wanted to wish you a happy birthday.
Only for the fact that we are far from short of treats on board, I would be
missing the 'tea party'!
Also Sharon I tried sending you an email to work
but didn't get your address correct. Dad, in case you haven't been
checking your email, 2 have gone your way, and Shar 1 has gone to
Claddagh.
Talk to all soon,
x
Lara.
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