Day 17
leeonsea
Lee Price
Wed 28 May 2008 18:06
Wind SW F4-5 Heading 070T
I had a little party last night, how'd you know when your drunk on a yacht?
certainly walking is no gauge of the progression of your drunkedness.
Elvis was giving us fever' and Ertha Kitt just wanted to do it! The Kalik
Beer of the Bahamas' was flowing into the low single figures. Why? what was
the purpose of this little get together of one? We had broken the 1K
distance barrier to Flores, the western most island of the Azores. Tonight
we'll be able to have another little nees-up having broken the 1K distance
barrier to Horta on Faial, what excitment! I'm thinking John-Lee Hooker and
Nina Simone might join me but I'll let you know.
There is of course the big doo', when we get to be closer to the Azores than
we are to Bermuda, it's going to be a busy week.
Dawn brought very light winds about 10kts in the SW. With the engine in gear
at tickover we we're able to make 4-5kts and have made pretty good progress.
The motor seems happy to run like this indefinatly and it's not too noisey
to live with. I'm still heading north of east hoping to find better wind but
I think tomorrow I should be able to turn due east for Horta.
It's still very overcast and has rained on and off all day. Everything is
wet, my feet are like sponges, I can't seem to get them dry, this is not a
good thing I think and may need to have some thought given to it. The
moisture in the atmosphere gets everywhere. I hung some trousers up to dry a
few days ago and they've actually gotton wetter!
But spirits are good. Just sort of settled into a kind of endurance type of
mood, pressing on with the last push. Reading and listening to music, not
really able to spend to long outside with it raining and all. I think I can
say that it's going to be wet and misserable in the UK over the next week
judging by what I've put up with.
At least theres wind, even if it's only a little bit.
Bon.