Land in sight!
Familien Svellingen på Seiltur
Tom og Christine Svellingen
Sat 22 May 2010 12:19
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Position 38:23N 29:29W
PUURRRFECT Day in PARADISE
The last full day on the way dawned with the
morning Dolphin Show. As with Safari who is 60 miles behind us (Tome won'tt have
to buy a Bavaria afterall) Maggy has had some of the same dolphins for
several days seemingly escorting her in to Horta: Shadow has a white shadow on
her dorsal fin, RaggyChaps has a patch of of loose skin flapping on her fin,
Little Shadow is a smaller version of Shadow. They are with us off and on all
day.
Today we also saw WHALES!!! Three of them! The
first two sighted about 20 meters off the starbord beam and disappearing fast
behind us. Troels and Tom leaped from their bunks at the cry of Whales from the
cockpit to come topsides and see.With all eyes on deck we also soon
spotted another one off the port stern quarter, too. That made everyones day
happy. Moana was nearly 'orgasmic' with joy! "It affects me this way almost
everytimeI see them.
The weather is cold cold cold even with the
daylight sun wool hats,mittons and longjohns are a must but watching the trip
teller run down the miles it seems everyone pretty much wants to be in
the cockpit making the most of the time left underway anyway.
We had a little clean up job in the afternoon.
We've been wondering about the source of small puddles accumulating on the aft
cabin floor. Well, it appears 13 cans of coke and carib have exploded under the
floorboards. A messy messy job to clean up, Tom and Karen attacked with
vigor washing everything down-even the cans. Tom fought the seasickness the
smell starting releasing and now everything is stored where it "should"
(now can be) stored -the fridge. Cold beer anyone?
Timed to be finished in time for the last sunset
everyone assembled in the cockpit balancing plates on their laps with knives and
forks to enjoy the last fillets(beef with onions), fresh salad and baked
apples.Good timing & provisioning-the salad also used the last tomatoes
and lettuce!. With dinner done our dlphins came rght on time for the Sunset
Dinner&Dolphin Show and put on a fantastic show. Jumping right in front of
the sun as it was setting lighting the sky with a backdrop of pinks and orange,
they stayed with Maggy for 15 miutes. They were right on time I swear they
planned it that way!
The day ended with Raj and Tom doing the dishes so
Karen could enjoy that's one GOOOOD cup of coffee in the cockpit as the colors
diesd out and stars came out. Troels headed for his bunk with a request to be
woken early to get an ekstra hour on the wheel his last night and Moana dreamed
of whales....The day was a perfect finale of the trip.
Now at 430am saturday (still on st.martin
time) of the last day underway the sun is up...also the wind and The Maggy
To Horta Express is trucking along at 8 knots. She is like a horse going for the
barn- Maggy 'smells' her harbor and is racing to be quietly tied up on the
docks. At this speed she is racing along at now she may even have time
for a good hosedown, too, in time for happy hour at the most famous meeting
point/wateringhole in the Atlantic: Peters Sports Bar and Troels can put on
his long awaited Red Pants-the badge of sailers who have crossed. ETA
Horta Immigration docks: 6pm lokal time. Champagne, INDOOR SHOWERS and beds
that don't move await.
0630 - investigating a funny shaped cloud Moana and
Karen simultaneously cried out : LAND IN SIGHT !!!!
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