Leg 4 - The Big One - No wind but great food!
Lilli Mae
Linton
Thu 28 Nov 2019 07:59
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Hi Everyone, all is well on the good ship Lilli Mae;
apart from the fact that we have no wind
 ! We have been bobbing around very slowly
and the winds have dropped to less the 2 mph in some cases. Right now we are
still moving very slowly. Hopefully it will come soon. We are still trying to head south to below the 20N latitude which
is much closer to the trade winds.I hope you can see our trackers. Last night we came
close to 2 boats in the pitch dark. Fortunately we can see then on our
instruments and we can see their navigation lights. We past within 0.5 miles of
a boat going as slow as we were at about 2100 hrs. I keep thinking how weird it
is that in a ocean crossing of 2,700 miles our boats come so close together. I
had to use the radio to check what he was planning to do and to ensure we did
not hit each other.
As a result of it being so quiet and that there has not
been much else to do we have been eating really well. I have attached a couple
of pictures of things we have been making. I think I might have mentioned the
stir fry. Well, eggs benedict and chicken fajitas have been on the menu and have
gone down well. Beef, mash potatoes and vegetables was on the menu last night
and that was a big hit with all crew members.
We have had a few rums to console ourselves with the
lack of wind. No breathalysers out here!
We have been having some trouble with our email
communications. Not sure what is happening but it could be the email is getting
blocked with large emails. If you are sending emails please keep them
really small. If you reply to any messages that we send then make sure then you
do not include our original message in the reply email. The system we have on
board is like email "dial-up" (for those of you old enough to remember those
days) and the system cannot handle large messages. Thanks.
It is now 0646 boat time (we move the hour back every 15
degrees west we sail) and the light is coming up. Still no wind but let keep our
fingers crossed for today.
Crew on Lilli Mae |
