Across the Pacific - Day 14
Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Wed 7 Apr 2010 08:00
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08:32.849S 129:01.531W
Wednesday 7th April I know the last few blogs have been a tad boring but there just hasn't anything happening to talk about. Believe me we all wish there was something going on! I do however have a few stories to tell from yesterday. Paul was on watch from 9.00 until 12.00 pm last night and Amy was taking over at 12.00 until 3.00 am. Paul has started watching films whilst up on deck during his watch so when Amy went up to start her watch she presumed he was just watching the end of the film and let him be as she had done the night before. Around 20 minutes passed when Paul suddenly spotted Amy, he hadn't noticed her come up. When asked what she was doing she explained that she was starting her watch and Paul realised immediately what had happened because Slumdog Millionaire certainly doesn't last for 3 hours. He asked her the time and then the penny dropped with Amy. We'd put the clocks back another hour yesterday after the roll call at 10.00 am so we are now 8 hours behind the UK. She'd changed the time on her watch but not on her phone which she uses for an alarm. She wasn't too pleased whereas me and Paul have found it quite amusing! She went to lie back in bed for half an hour before re-appearing for her watch again. This time the strangest thing happened. The whole horizon suddenly lit up as if a bomb had just gone off behind the sails, the whole sky was bright white just for a second or two. Paul instantly thought it was lightening while Amy had spotted something just at the end of the boom making her think it was a flare. She had spotted a ball of light falling from the sky, just like a firework would or similarly like a flare, but the light soon disappeared. First guesses were that it was a shooting star but shooting stars don't light up the sky so much and they aren't that big. They have concluded that it was something much bigger than a star like a meteor. That might be a bit far fetched but they're going to have to look it up on the internet when we reach land. From then on it was a very disturbed night for us all. The wind changed direction and is now coming from the North East so that meant the sails needed changing from the starboard side to the port side which involves a lot of work. The spinaker pole needed to be moved and with that the three lines attached it and the same with the boom. I managed to get to sleep an hour after my watch ended and then Amy was awoken an hour earlier to help put the cruising chute up. I'm not too sure how much sleep Paul had, he tends to catnap! Other than that it's been a very quiet day, too quiet in fact. The wind dropped right down in the night and we're now tootling along at around 6 knots. Our ETA has now been extended by around 24 hours! And without the wind there is obviously no breeze to cool us down so we're very hot at the moment! |