Horta, Azores
MILANO BLANCO
James Blackburn
Mon 13 Jul 2009 15:34
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13 July 2009 noon 38:33.2N 029:18.02W
Paul:
At 11.15am this morning Faial came into view.
After a fairly quiet 24 hours our jouney is coming to an end. We had a good
amount of wind last night and having set our staysail we made every advantage of
it.
This morning we saw our first whales blow about 50
metres from the starboard side of the boat, and then resurface a couple of
hundred yards behind us. 10 minutes after this we saw a small group of about 8
to 10 fish swim acroos us, they looked like Dolphins but they had a black fin
with a white back, we could only identify them as Minke whale.
137.6nm average speed 5.7
knots
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