CALISO TUESDAY 27TH NOV
CALISO
Mark
Tue 27 Nov 2007 15:21
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Hi, sorry about the delay in writing but we
had large swells and high winds - gusting up to 35k on the first
night. the start was great, we stayed back out of the crowds and set off
surfing down the waves. we reached 12.7k surfing down a particularly big
one. due to the conditions i was rather queezy for a while and so were
becky and lisa but not so bad. luckily no one was sick. the first
whole day shot by with lots of shifts and lots of sleeping in between.
today is our 3rd morning already and the sun is out and it is already much
warmer. we saw lots of dolphins on the first afternoon but nothing
since. seas have settled down much more now. we were glad to have
food ready to put in the oven as no one would have felt like cooking. bob,
as usual, has been doing most of the galley work with his iron guts but i
managed to wash up for the first time this morning!! the team photo shows
the two young women - lisa with dark hair is mark the skipper's daughter and
becky with blond hair is bob' daughter. i'm the not quite so young woman
with the curls (Jan). bob is the bald one, mark is the dark curly haired
one and dave is the ed harris look alike in the front. both nights so far
we have had to put the engine on for 2 hours where we had less wind but it's
been steady the rest of the time. weather reports are coming in regularly
and all looks great. we are now all on deck, listening to reggae music,
eating fruit salad that becky made and the guys are fishing for tuna for
tea! this is what it is all about. the first 48 hours just have to
be got through. more soon.... Jan xx
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