Second day 15-05-2010
Mollihawk's Atlantic Circumnavigation
eddie/david nicholson
Sat 15 May 2010 22:55
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Well we survived another night together and
the spirits are much better today as we get fully accustomed to the sea roll. At
meal times we head off for a while with the wind behind us and the boat flattens
out which sees less of the food on the ground!
It also reminds us of how nice a trip we had
crossing the Atlantic with the sea rolling behind us all day rather than hitting
us on the beam (side) as it does currently.Every so often a wave catches us at
an awkward angle and everyone in the cockpit gets a soaking.
Sleeping at any time of day or night is also
different this trip as it is 31 degrees even at night in the cabin so awake
or asleep you are continuously sweating.But at least we all smell the same
so it goes unnoticed!!
Ear plugs play a large part in the sleeping process
as they reduce the ever ending noise of creaking and banging as she rises
and falls over each wave,it also leaves the crew free to grumble about
their skipper as he slumbers in his cabin!!
We have seen a few different birds and our residend
bird watcher tells us that they were a White tailed tropic bird and Sotty
Shearwater.We saw turns and Pelicans around the islands and the Pelicans put on
a fantastic display of dive bombing for fish on the surface.
We also had a visitor last night in the form of a
big ship which we had to alter course for and it soon disappeared over the
horizon into the Bermudan Triangle which incedentially the Hod informs us is a
square and not a triangle at all!
Well we thought it better not to sail too close to
it either way and were glad that it was Friday the 14th and not the
13th! The only thing disappearing around our the ship's rations! we
continue to be served the best of grub prepared by our Master Chef ' the Hod'
For all of you who were wondering if Barracuda was
fit to eat, we are all alive and well and had a wonderful Barracuda Pie last
evening, it was a first for us all and puts the Hod into the record books as the
only man known to have served up such a fierce-some creature while at
sea! We are a third of the way on the first leg. We are
almost at sea now 2 full days and by then our trip log will read 310nm. So
we are averaging a healthy 155nm per day. If we can keep this up we will be in
Bermuda by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. As the wind is drops off from the
20/24kn so will our speed and this evening the wind has calmed to
12/14kn.Further drops in the wind are forcast in the coming days, so we may have
to crank up the Donkey to make our intended landfall.
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