GULLIVER OF SOUTHAMPTON 8th December 2008

Gulliver
Tue 9 Dec 2008 00:03
Currently our GPS gives a distance of 862 nautical miles to our waypoint just off the north tip of St Lucia, bearing 275 degrees true. 900 miles and 46 degrees longitude have been crossed of the "to go" charts, with the cruising chute and autopilot continuing to cooperate (after a couple of moments this morning) to give us a respectable speed of 7.5 knots on a course of 280 degrees with 15 knots of North Easterly breeze and a gentle sea.

Dinner this evening was home made pizza and the second installment of the Bourne trilogy. Ed has finished all the reading material he brought, with the most free time thus far due to most of the on board maintenance projects having come to a natural pause. Mark has been chasing people in various ports, warehouses and offices on either side of the Atlantic in an effort to hit the ground running with the necessary jobs once we hit land. Andy, we are sorry to report, has had a(nother) frustrating day on the fishing front with 2 lures and one line taken today, having wound in a real beaut, close-but-unfortunately-not-quite-close-enough! Lis, Anna and Zoe attended their own offshore aerobics class this evening, the end of which seemed to coincide remarkably well with the start of happy hour...

The day's games did not turn out well for team Gulliver, Falbala emerging victorious from battleships and connect 4, but we seem to be steadily winding her in... hopefully we can pip her to the finish yet!

Anyway it's time to settle into the night's watches, good night to all.

All the best from Mark, Ed, Lis,Andy, Anna and Zoe

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