Rolling along 43:05.179N 23:46.627W

Henrywood
Melvin Magnall
Wed 1 Jul 2009 03:08
0200 July 1st.     869.1 miles to Ireland.
 
We,re still rolling along here with a westerly wind and following sea with 3 reefs in and a tiny jib. We've tried everything to follow a direct course to Dunmore East  but we keep getting pushed a little northerly, but with 869 to go that could change.
 
I'm getting a bit tired of this constant hand over hand to avoid being thrown into something.The next time I'm on a Boeing 777 and the guys up in the pointed end say we're just heading out across the pond. I'll be ready to give them and earful. It may be a pond at 500 miles an hour, but it's a bloody big ocean at 4-5 knots. LOL.
 
         
 
There were many large schools (?) of dolphin as we left the Azores. They kept us company playing in the bow wake, but It's not too good trying to take pictures up there so I hope these will suffice.
 
The cool temp and rain showers are just getting us ready for an Irish Summer. I can't wait for a pint of draught Guinness and some fish and chips and not necessary in that order.
 
When the moon sets the stars are just magnificent and the Milky Way is plain to see. There are a few shooting stars and I assume the fast moving stuff are satellites. I must get more familiar with the constellations. A fellow sailor, while in Horta, mentioned he was reading a book which connected the constellations with their mythology and he found it made it more interesting.