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Kirsty and Lee's Excellent Adventure
Lee Matthews
Sat 15 Dec 2012 12:38
14:42.7N 50:22.2W
Well pop pickers todays blog track title is by a band called the drifters
which is exactly what we will be doing in 36 hours time when all the diesel has
run out if the wind doesnt come back. On one hand its lovely, no lifejackets
required sea is like glass, still a bit swelly but that’s going too, sun is out
and raging, Kirsty is up at the bow improving her scots tan and me and steve are
playing with anything that will eek another 0.1 knots out of the engine/main but
as I write we have offically beaufort force 0 on the wind instrument!!! After
hitting that low though as long as the wind returns soonish I’m not complaining
we have loads of food water and booze left (although some of it is E1 sangria
Kirst insisted on bringing.) We are finally getting loads of sleep and rest to
prepare ourselves for some hard fast sailing to make up time. It is
really hot in the cabins with the engine on but its bearable, although a
bake off is going to happen this afternoon which will change that. The choice is
stay cool or eat bread...no contest really as no bread means no marmite on toast
in the morning which is unthinkable, isn’t it Cara?. Clocks go back one
hour again for us tonight so elongated happy hour so we can drink all the
sangria (Im sure it will taste better with rum which is what I plan to do) Me
and Steve are down to our last 2 beers and we are saving those for tuesday
night.
Well not a lot else to report, cant wait to get there now (Ive run out of
melted Twix). Well Ive got a boat to sail and youve probably got to go and elbow
some pensioners out of the way to get Christmas gifts for your friends and
relatives to restock OXFAM with in the New Year ....good luck with that...I
really miss Christmas shopping.......
Lee
PS dont forget to buy sprouts... they are devils food but you need sprouts
at Christmas to remind you what all the poor people in the world have to eat all
year round. |