Lightning - the new Christmas lights option!
S/Y Pelerin
Colin Speedie & Louise Johnson
Tue 25 Dec 2012 11:34
I woke up for my 0600-0900 watch this morning, and whoa, we have lightning all around us! Usually I love watching a good storm, but being out on a boat in a vast sea, with nothing else for a lightning bolt to latch onto, you do feel a little vulnerable. Luckily, it was all high level lightning, above the cloud layers that had developed during the night. And although we might get some scattered showers today, now its daylight we can’t see any the stormy cumulonimbus or anvil topped clouds usually the harbingers of lightning. Trust our luck, to hit the ITCZ on Christmas Day!
Anyway – what for our yuletide celebrations aboard the good ship Pelerin? Colin is preparing some lamb we brought from the Cape Verdes, and I’m digging out one of my special reserve tins of ‘mock duck’ (I can’t explain, it’s one of life’s little mysteries!). We’ll cook as many roast potatoes as we can fit in our tiny oven, and of course, a massive Yorkshire pudding! I’ve also smuggled on board a nice bottle of Champagne, and a couple of special choccies – what a feast!! Colin (the onboard hum-bug) is wearing his Christmas badge (“bo***cks to Christmas”), I’ve put tinsel everywhere I can secure it, and Ronnie is singing some really bizarre Christmas songs – so all in all, a not very typical Christmas Day, mid-Atlantic…
Love and yuletide hugs to all,
Lou, Colin & Ronnie