38:47.282N 36:46.581W
SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Fri 15 Jun 2018 07:16
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UTC 0618
1930 nm, about 264 to go, if to make the stop on F
lores... ( But the weather forecast was good yesterday to continue to
Horta... I do not know... )
My favourite time again -- the begining of the dawn
... I love it more and more since mooring in Newport,
RI. I noticed then how quickly thed day starts and the sun rises... then
it seems that the day freezes in its run, and then the abrupt end,
sunset... I know, my feeling is biased... I know -- the Earth is rotating
with the same speed... But I do not like the sunsets since that
time too...
Yesterday passed by in 'routine' way... The boat was
on run, we have enough wind to maintain our 'climbing'
to the NE, towards Flores latitude.. counting aroud 6 kts...
A few small adjustments with the sails, some
re-arrangment within the 'garage' area... Reading, fishing ( or the
next attempt to do so), cooking... A regular, boring ( in a
very good sense ), day...
It was 1600 local time, when the reminders that life may
not be boring all the times rang the bells..
I spotted the metal barrel -- probably from gazoline or
oil -- a few meters on the port side.. Submerged... passiing
by...
Well, bullets which make sounds -- do not kill,
right? Bye, barrel... And its gone... But the thoughts
'what if... ' were disturbing for a while...
Time to remove the fish line... the evening is
coming... Took it out... In the moring, I found the flying fish on
deck... and when I was puttig the line in the water, I've put the
fish on the hook... Now, as I took the line out -- I see
no fish... Well, that was kind of expected but the absence of the
hook and the fresh scratches on the lure -- were not...
Retrospectively, does it explain some slowdown of the boat during the day,
when I was wondering that the conditions were the same, but the
boat was moving half a knot slower? ;-) Ok,
Fish -- in our long competition you got half a point today... ( I
still have the line, the lure, the boat, and both of my
hands... So, the secord half of the point -- mine...
)
Conversation with Chris confirmed that the
weather should be pritty much the same through the first part of
Friday,,,, And to have the wind after -- I should be at the
level of Flores latitude -- 39'21N,,, It should be barely some wind at
that level -- but not below -- till Sunday...
And that wind may be enough to
reach Flores...
The above defines our strategy -- we are going NE,
slowly gaining some miles. Are we going to be on time, at right
place, before the wind gone ? The answer to that would be
at the end of the day. Why bother about it now?
For unknown reason, I suddenly got the feeling
yesterday -- the trip around the Caribbean Islands is over...
The sun has just arrived on horizon, and we are sailing
into it! Are there new adventures ?! Who knows, we will
see...
Have a great day,
M.
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