Off to sea.
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Sat 18 Feb 2012 21:27
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Our position is 18:22.38N 67:38.70W
Saturday 18th
February 17:00 LT
This morning was an early start with a few jobs to
do before we departed. Checking this mornings gribs brought no more joy than
looking at windguru yesterday evening in the bar, as the forecast was still for
unhelpful, irritatingly light winds. Mike skipped breakfast in favour of a swim
to the beach and back, about a mile, and then went off with Dave to return the
car and pick up another couple of cans of diesel in view of the
forecast.
With everything ship shape we motored away from our
anchorage at 10:25 and headed out through the reefs that guard the bay. With
only the lightest of sea breezes on the nose we continued to motor at about 6
knots on a calm sea until by about 14:00 when the wind filled in from just East
of North and gave us a splendid windward sail in about 12 to 15
kts.
So far so good, we hope the breeze will continue
through the night as forecast, and fingers crossed tomorrows calm will not
materialise.
The sun is sinking and it is time to be cooking our
evening meal before the light goes. Then we will settle down for what
will be a dark night (almost no moon) of 2 hours on 4 hours off watches.
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