Ships! Hundreds of them

Pemandia
Peter Fabricius
Sat 30 Jul 2016 20:10
All right, both a misquote and an exaggeration. However, until this evening we have seen perhaps 5 ships the whole way and suddenly this evening there were 6 large fishing boats and a ship all within 10 miles of us, so before supper (another of Judy's galley specials) the AIS alarm which is set to give much more warning than usual was sounding off like anything. Now it seems quieter so I hope we are not going to spend the next 48 hrs worrying about ships....

Last night I wrote about distance from land. Interesting that because we are so far West, at no point has France been our nearest land - we went straight from NW Spain being closest to the Scilly Isles.

And when will we arrive? I don't know! It depends not only on maintaining our present speed, but also what the tide is doing around the Lizard. Our best guess is early hours of Monday morning...

Peter

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