250 miles to go
Neroli
Charles Tongue
Fri 12 Dec 2008 15:29
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14:37.70N
56:41.00W
250 miles to
go..........
Another
cracking day's run of 170 - just one mile less than our record run and we are
beginning to count down the miles to St Lucia where we hope to arrive on Sunday,
just 21 days out of Las Palmas.
 Graham taking
a break from the blog!
The tradewinds
took time to arrive but they have served us well for the past four days, during
which we have covered 666 miles, mostly dead down wind with twin headsails. Last
night during Lou's early watch the log showed 10.6 kn in 27 kn of wind. Exciting
stuff for a heavily laden cruising boat. The swell has made it quite difficult
to move about the boat - let alone sleep!
We got greedy
yesterday and had two treats; Henry treated us to a tin of delicious Grassmere
gingerbread which was applauded by all Neroli's crew. Lou's treat was a bottle
of Rose and a poetry reading. As the sun set we read and listened to some
wonderful writings by poets including Lear, Kipling and Brooke . The
grand climax was Lou's reading of her own poem about our transatlantic saga
which will form our blog entry on our arrival date as Graham, our normal
scribe is handing over to Henry tomorrow, as his birthday treat, and will
be busy doing other things on our arrival date - like drinking a few rum
punches! Normal service will resume on the following day, hopefully with
photographs and reports on our arrival at Rodney Bay, St Lucia.
Friday 12.12..08
15.30 GMT
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