Day 40 Position Report 05:31.225N 087:29.083E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Wed 3 Oct 2007 08:46
Position @ UTC 1200 03/10/07
 
What a start to the 1st of October, at 0736 UTC time we spotted a Sperm Whale coming straight for us, we had to take avoiding action to miss him, obviously does know the rules of the road!, Position 04:55.21N 081:02.36E, he was a big bugger beautiful to watch about 15ft wide and I estimate between 20 and 30 tonnes.
 
So if that wasn't enough @ 0815 UTC Position 04:55.72N 081:07.96E, we saw some sea birds diving for fish, then it was like the sea exploded with dolphins, between 50 and 70 of them all working together to round the fish up and have a feed, I've only read about this in books and it was fascinating to watch it happen in real life, they all looked so well organized and were moving together to form a barrier to catch the fish, pretty cool and a fantastic start to the day until a huge rain squall hit us with 35 knots and a lot of rain about an hour later...still you can't have it all ways. To finish that day off 200nms midday to midday Boat time UTC -0300.
 
The last couple of days have followed the same pattern of rain squalls and fast averages, in one of them last night we couldn't see the front of the boat and were pulling a reef in the main, well the main was tightened too much and the spinlock cleat broke, fortunately knowing Lagoons reputation for under rating the fittings Chris had send us a spare which was fitted this morning. At present the Equatorial current has turned slightly against us which means our daily averages have dropped a little but we have still managed 190 & 195 midday to midday boat time the last couple of days. Not much else really to report, we'll be close to Langkawai in the next 2 to 3 days and on shore in may be 4.5 days.
 
Mark
 
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