Half Way!
Lovesail
Tue 24 Mar 2015 12:05
07:36.9S 113:46.7W
1600 23 Mar 2015
Only 1,500 miles to go to Hiva Oa! The crew celebrated in the LS
tradition: one small beer (each) for lunch! Not much of a
celebration but it was enough to send everyone to sleep for the afternoon.
As you can see, we are all in good shape and enjoying a more consistent
ride these days. We have had the spinnaker up all day for the past few
days in light easterly winds. Not exactly what one expects of Trade Winds
but it’ll do. Here we are under full sail, including a bit of extra
canvas.
Not every day is breezy. We’ve also had calms. We used one of
these occasions to take a look under the boat and found a mass of weed and
barnacles growing there. They must have taken root while we were in
harbour in the Galapagos. Mark did a bit of scraping in the worst
parts.
Fishing is a disaster. We can only tell you about the ones that got
away and there aren’t many of those. We’ve been using flying fish that
land on deck in the night as bail but soon we’ll be eating them unless we catch
a proper fish – anything! We keep trying.
The chefs keep producing wonderful fare from our little galley. Even
after 14 days at sea fresh goodies appear on the table to delight our
palettes. Here’s a salad prepared by Lucy recently. Doesn’t that look
good?
It’s all good and calm and long may that continue. We are doing our
prep about the Marquesas and the Tuomotus and are looking forward to arriving
one day. We disengage from the rally in the Marquesas and will be sad not
to have their company. We have our regular evening scheds every day and a
bit of a chat on the radio and we now have a mini morning sched set up with a
couple of boats that are particularly close to us. It’s good to keep in
touch.
That’s it for now.
M |