Boxing Day
Jigsaw
Wed 26 Dec 2007 13:23
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Position, at 09:00 local, on 26th
December, 14.40N 59.52W, current course 242 True, towards Point du Cap on
the North of St Lucia.
Hope you all enjoyed the Christmas Dinner chaps!
Ours was lovely, the corned beef was
ace!!!!
On reflection decided not to go to
Boulogne.
Made fair progress overnight, with the moon
still illuminating our track all the way through it's transit. Can now smell the
islands, and I suspect that those already on the islands can smell us
approaching from upwind. I guess that we will arrive in St Lucia around
late evening, currently (at 09:00 local ) have 72 miles to go to Point du
Cap, and then decide whether we should anchor or find a berth in the
marina. Now have wind, at last, and this decent breeze, of about 15-18
knots, is enabling us to make good progress towards St Lucia. Crew all
looking forward to getting in after a lengthy passage, we are all ready for a
bit of shore leave now, and the boat could do with a wash and brush up, and the
laundry bag is pretty full. I really fancy a swim now, recalling with
pleasure splashing in the surf on a rainy day in Portugal. Want to get wet in
the same way again.
Would have been there earlier, but
we hooked an enormous fish, which was so powerful that it dragged
us backwards for several miles. Did not manage to land it, despite 50kg line,
and a wire trace on the end of the nylon line. The force on the rod
when the fish hit the lure was astonishing, luckily for us it
managed to brake the line, and so some poor, very large, fish is now
swimming around with a rubber squid in it's gob.
Paul.
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