Half way to Djibouti from Salalah

Diablo's cruising adventures
Doug and Clare Hassell
Sun 15 Jan 2023 09:31


13:30.81 N 

50:09.56 E 

We are really enjoying our sailing adventure with a fabulous crew .Having fantastic sailing with winds from astern of 16 to 20 knots, 2 to 3 m swelling  keeping us on our toes

Clare holds the speed record so far with 11 knots and also the dormouse award for napping on her watches !Katy is close behind)

We are lovingJemima’s fruit cake which we have in the middle of our night watches 

Simon is education on the mysteries of the universe (he studied Astro physicist} Jake is not only our tech guru but helms through all the tricky manoeuvres

Diablo is behaving herself as always 

We have also been lucky to see a pilot whale - sadly he was on his own. Otherwise not so much on the wildlife.

We entered the the International Transit Corridor for Shipping, (ITCS) we are sailing between the North and South transit lanes.  Today and yesterday the Japanese surveillance aircraft has flown over us.


Team Diablo




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