Dolphins all around, Portugal on port beam
Buesnel
Fri 8 May 2009 10:53
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41:08.81N 9:21.02W
A bit night of wind and waves - the wind blew twice
what was forecast. We were running with the wind so the apparent was less than
the true by 8-10knots, but we certainly noticed it when we turned into wind to
reef and go onto the other tack. I went to the foredeck to sort
something out and got a wave flat in the face - lovely. We took our first
wave over the stern - a breaking wave catching us up at 8 knots! No sleep for
anyone last night - just too bouncy and noisy and needing to brace yourself in
any sleep position.
A thought to those ocean racers who go at
least twice our speed and have freezing waters in the Southern Oceans -
they are mad and I have no desire to go there - bay hopping in the Med
is where I want to be! (although the adrenelin of this big
sea/big wind/high speed sailing is
quite addictive)
Things have calmed down this morning and we have
just been visited by a huge pod of Dolphins - 50+ came bouncing in from all
around and stayed with us for 15 minutes - Pip took 150 photos from the bow so
hopefully there will be some classics. We all really enjoy our now daily Dolphin
visits and everyone gets up on deck to watch them play.
We have Portugal off the port beam now. Our current
plans is to keep pushing south and turn the corner into the Algarve before our
next trip ashore. All going well we should in a port there early Sunday morning.
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