Cold front!
Fleck
Fri 25 Jul 2014 12:51
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Friday 25th july, 2014
Position 40:24.2N 27:05.0W
A difficult night. There is quite a deep low
pressure system just to our west, and its associated cold front moved through
our position at about 22,00 hours last night. Rain and wind! We managed to keep
our stif fry veggie supper down, but the crew is now confined to her bunk, and
looking rather pale! Still a wild night made for good progress, although the
confused seas meant that we spent a long time with our nose burried in the
waves, and less time than usual surfing over them. Excellent phosphoresence made
for an awesome cockpit experience: not that I was tempted to spend a great deal
of time soaking up the fun! Our AIS is now working perfectly, so we have a dual
alarm system for big ships, and have 'seen' four so far, the nearest 8
miles off, but with these seas invisible to the naked eye.
Today is lovely: scudding light clouds and a lot of
sunshine, wind down to about 18 kts. A bit of banging from the boom as last
nights seas are rather slow to settle down. I have been up gybing the rig, and
reading my 'New Statesman' in the cockpit. Time now for our daily prayers to the
weather forecast gods, and to think about lunch, for one of us
anyway!
Hannah sends love to all her friends/readers, and
if anyone would like to swap places with her right this minute, he/she would be
welcome to come aboard!
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