Gibraltar to Palma, Majorca ( Aguilas; SE Spain to Formentera anchorage, Balearics - 163 nm )

Tuesday
092012 37:44.474N
01:26.26E Gibraltar
to 06:30 37:24.63N 01:33.04W
Noon Position 37:33N 0:
44W Wind: NE 4kts ,SOG 6.7kts 12:45 Jackie prepares
lunch; Tony in driver’s seat and yours truly working on log. 21:00 38:12.18N 00:20.85E
Dinner of beef bourguignon with mashed potatoes, a piece of cheese to finish
the bottle of Bordeaux, followed by the panna cotta and freshly made red
berries coulis, which to our taste, took ages to cool down and become firm
enough to be served. Now the red berries coulis has turned into a sorbet and
the panna cotta has the ideal consistence. The well-meant e-mail received
lately suggesting that I needed to go on a diet will be followed once Bootlegger
has arrived in Tony takes the 21 to midnight
watch, Frank catches up with sleep in a very warm cabin and Jackie sorts her
many photographs in the cockpit. 00:01 38:22N 00:44E Frank
takes watch. Note wind is now southerly 20 -22kts. We motor sailing with engine
rpm of 1800 and a SOG of 7.5kts. Time to be sailing. Put rolled in genoa out
and brought out main and mizzen. 00:10 We are sailing
– only! on full sail with wind off starboard quarter we are soon back to
a SOG of 7.4kts but with sail only. Course 59 Bearing 62 degrees. DTG to
Formentera anchorage 39.5nm. On radar I identify a
yacht we have had ahead of us all day still ahead of us but now by just one
mile. Ahead again I have three targets, 2.5 and 3.5 nm respectively. Suspect
they are trawlers. 01:30 Wind dropped
suddenly to 10kts necessitating the re-start of the engine at 1899 rpm and the
pulling back in of the genoa.. 03:45 Our sailing
companion is now less than three quarters of a mile ahead. We still have a
number of fishing boats to port a couple of miles off. SOG 7. Wind 2kts Wind:
southerly SE10.7 kts 03:00 Jackie takes watch.
Starts by making tea and toast as we near Formentera just 12 nm distant. Slow
engine to 1500 rpm giving SOG of 5.3kts in order not to arrive too early at
Formentera anchorage as it will still be dark. 07:00 38:46.71N 01:25.47E
Arrived Balearics, specifically Formentera anchorage and dropped anchor at this
position. Plan is to depart here lunchtime for Distance
done from Aguilas anchorage ( |