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Ensuenos
David Charity
Sun 15 May 2011 19:34
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Dear All
The last few days have been quite pleasant.The sun
shine has appeared for the first time in a fortnight and it has been nice to be
able to open the hatches and dry our stuff.The moon is not far from being full
so night watches are also enjoyable.We have had quite a bit of whale action
along with hundreds of dolphins.Other vessels appear once a watch indicating
that we are actually drawing closer to the Azores and unlike my previous
suspicions they are not actually moving futher away.Food has been playing a
major interest and cause for excitment now everything has calmed down. Sammy has
been going full pelt with the baking and the bread rolls no longer represent
somthing you would find on a prehistoric archeological dig and more like
somthing with "taste the difference" written on the packet at sainsburys.Tonight
we are having pumpkin curry where we will be sacraficing the last
tomato.
It is still a little difficult to give an eta at
Horta but i will hazard a guess and say either wednesday night or thursday
morning.we only have 187 miles to go but the wind is straight out of the east
providing our two familar course options of either the Gamba west Africa or
Greenland.We have currently gone with the greenland option as it makes life in
the galley a little easier.Ensuenos wafts along between 3.7 and 4.5 knots giving
us a vmg towards Horta of 2.3knts.Great....the joys of sailing.I have a very
small reserve of diesel in the bank that i will deploy when i can smell
the cold beers or the crew decide to make me walk the plank.......cheers Tim and
Jackie for the footy updates
Regards Ed
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