Gibraltar to Lanzarote - Day 4

Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Wed 28 Oct 2009 11:15

30:58.624 N 011:28.742W

 

Another foggy night last night, we couldn’t see any other ships, we could just hear their fog horns! We have A.I.S ( Automatic Identification System ) fitted on the boat which enables us to identify ships. It gives you the ships name, size, speed, destination and heading. On the radar we had a tanker on a collision course with us, so thankfully with the information we had we were able to call him up on the VHF radio and he altered his course for us. We heard him pass on our port side, but couldn’t see him as the fog was so dense, very eerie!

 

By early morning the sun had finally broken through the fog. The sea was flat as a pancake so we spent the day motoring. It was a very different day today compared to others on this crossing. We sunbathed and did some fishing and caught another four, but with the freezer full they were thrown back to live another day. Lucky things!

 

It was a lovely evening, we stood on the bow with the sea still flat as a pancake, not even a ripple, with the sun setting on the starboard side and a rainbow and the moon on the port! What a picture and what a good day!

 

 

 


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