Canopus 3 on the Blue Water Rally
Jean Michel Coulon
Fri 4 Jul 2008 03:49
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my apologies to the francophiles but the next
handful of blog entries will be in english
We left Fiji and Musket Cove on Wednesday afternoon
- after a disappointing scuba experience and more "big problems" with bored
customs officers, we finally recovered our passports and made a break for the
wide open ocean as soon as the tide would allow. We exited the reefs
surrounding and protecting Fiji from the open ocean.
Now its blue...the whole world is blue...except for
one of our crew who is feeling a little bit green. We have been making
good progress from Fiji to New Caledonia and are one day away from our potential
pit stop in Vanuatu. The weather is expected to get stronger over the next
36 hours, so we are headed to the southernmost island of Vanuatu to wait it
out. If the bad weather doesn't materialize, we will continue on to New
Caledonia.
We started of the day with a bit of successful
fishing, catching a tuna of unkown parentage. We think its either a Bigeye
tuna or plain ole albacore <which goes to show how much we know about tuna
fishing>. JM cooked some up for lunch and it was fantastic...the
freshest tuna we've ever eaten. We will try to add one of Cecile's
pictures for all of you tuna enthusiasts.
Otherwise we're just kicking it Canopus style
involving great meals from the skipper, relaxation all day long, and thanks to
our night watches we've been able to see both spectacular sunsets and
sunrises. Yesterday while Matt was napping Cecile and JM spotted
another sailboat on the horizon thanks to the radar they were able to avoid a
collision. JM made contact on the radio and the skippers exchanged weather
info and bon voyages. Its rare to see other boats on the crossing that
we're making, much less passing a few meters away from
them.
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