13 December- So near and yet so far
Moulin Rouge
Philip Barltrop
Mon 13 Dec 2010 14:16
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14:08.388N 57:05.513W
{GMST}14|08.388|N|057|05.513|W|So near and yet so
far|So near and yet so far{GEND} With what should be just a short distance to go we
should be able to see land soon. Relatively speaking our 230 or so miles seems a
short distance but we've actually come the best part of 3000 miles and
won't see land until we are 30 miles away. Timing our arrival is also
proving difficult as that rather depends on what we do about time zones. The
best idea so far is to change the clocks on arrival so that we get longer in St
Lucia and less time afloat. Philip is tending to use the 4 hours change multiple
times in the attempt to further shorten our journey.
Last night was somewhat frustrating as the wind dropped.
To make progress we had to have the engine on but to make sure we have fuel to
motor into St Lucia we can only go so fast ... too much speed and we could run
out of fuel before we get there!
It's been another wash day
today ... Mark started it and Philip followed ... Ben is in the washing queue.
Unless Andy washes the towel he has been using as a sarong for the past 2 weeks
we will have to fly code flag "B" on arrival in St Lucia (carrying hazardous
cargo).
Ben and Colin have been making bread and chocolate chip
cookies ... they won't last long.
As always our correspondents have come up trumps with
answers to our questions. However no-one has got even close to the correct
solutions this time. The questions ... with correct answers ... are shown
below.
Q. Why are pirates called pirates?
A. They just aaaagh ... (this needs to be said with a
pirate accent to be fully appreciated).
Q. What is a spar-lash?
A. It is the noise the anchor makes when it hits the
water .... splaaaash.
We've been at sea too long as these jokes which Colin
caught everyone with on day one are still funny.
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