Topical Cancer
Quest
Jack and Hannah Ormerod and Lucia, Delphine & Fin
Sat 19 Sep 2015 16:56
Hi everybody,
We're just passing two uninhabited islands, the Selvagems, once owned by a British family called the Hintons. They sold them to Madeira and now 250,000 shearwater birds live there. Just as I write this, Dad's caught a big fish, another dorado mahi-mahi but this time much bigger with an electric-blue top fin like a mohican and yellow-spotted skin.
Today we are passing the Tropic of Cancer, 30 degrees north of the Equator and we thought it was going to be like our usual passages so far down south; sunny and easy. Well the Atlantic just bit back! We've had squalls roll past us since after breakfast and the first one caught us with all our sails up! Ellie says she's going to draw a picture of us all hanging on. And then it rained and we all sat together on the cockpit floor. Oh well, like Dudu says; we survived another day!
Hoping to get to Gran Canaria tomorrow but something tells me that the drama isn't over in the mean time. Dad's just lay on the floor by the steering wheel to rest. Mum baked bread too in the middle of it all; she said that us hunkering down in the rain made it rise longer and taste better.. and Fin's feeling better too; she's been to the bathroom twice today in the lulls.
Well that's about it from Quest. Wonder what it would be like to sleep on land again.
Write soon,
L&D