Ahoy Sailors!

The Nhobbits (see previous post) are back!!! These past 3 days have been and still are very challenging for our little Nhobbits. I have only 3 words : Respect, Respect, Respect! sorry one word repeated 3 time; respect for the sea/ocean as mother nature showed us a glimpse of her power.

It all started with a simple email from Simon our weather man on land letting us know that we will be getting some good trade wind at last but before that we face a cold front coming from?.... the UK where else could a cold front come from.

It didn’t sound all that scary on the email until we saw a couple of days ago nasty (or should i say English) looking clouds coming our way. Within minutes what was a confortable sea with force winds between 3 and 5 max turned into very rough sea with force winds of 7/8 and above!!!

It is hard to explain what it feels like but i will try using a simple analogy: Everyone is familiar with the poor rabbit crossing the road and suddenly having the lights of a ferocious speeding car hit its eyes making the poor rabbit unable to run or hide until the inevitable happens and it get hit by the car.

Well its just like that except that unlike most rabbits we did manage to get to the other side with only a minor issue our wind generator regulator did not like the load and exploded again!.

So a day and half after this great gift from the UK we still have strong winds and moderate seas but its calming down and i am told within a day or two all will be back to what it should be; this is very good news as our little Nobbits bodies cannot take much more. The good news is that this has allowed us to make great progress towards the BVI and we are now nearly half way with expected arrival in around 10 days time.

A part from that we are all ok and the flying fish are still the dominant spices in these part of the ocean it seems (see picture).

Before i sign off i would like to thank my daughter Safiya for the music she loaded on my ipod as i have managed to finally get it to work and can now listen to music during my long night watches; and also say good luck to James (my son) for his car test.

Until next time

Captain Ben signing off Rrrrr!