Graptolite - 2025 Miles Out
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Mon 24 Mar 2008 17:20
Seeing the lights of a fishing boat dead ahead last night came as a
surprise. It was my first sighting of any other boat, or even aircraft,
since leaving Puerto Ayora. They didn't seem to want to talk on the radio.
It can get lonesome on night watch here.
According to the patchy figures we get on the daily SSB radio net, we seem
to have caught up with the tail-end of the fleet that set out from Puerto
Ayora two and a half days before us. Unfortunately, there are also a few
boats that set off after us that are now ahead but as they're real racing
yachts it's not too embarrassing.
We watched the DVD of 'Master & Commander, Far Side of the World' during a
rain shower earlier. There are some good scenes set in the Galapagos Islands
that we can now point to and say we've been there. And yes, Lori, there were
extra rations of grog for the men! The DVD of the ever so camp 'South
Pacific' is scheduled for "some enchanted evening" soon.
Bikini of the day - apricot coloured.
M