Welcome to Europe....
Pemandia
Peter Fabricius
Fri 3 May 2024 17:46
Where the time is…
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Welcome to Europe because as I write this (1830) we are about 20 Nm S of the latitude of Gibraltar. The coast of Africa is now some 400+ miles away and Cape St Vincent in SW Portugal only (only?) 350 miles, so we are closing in on Europe. We have sailed 170 miles so far. “Stand by your beds”!!
It’s been a glorious day, warm and sunny with a fabulous Force 4 wind behind us. We have the two headsails and no main and although we roll quite a bit we are overall very comfortable. We have eaten well, boiled egg for breakfast (timed so that the generator was running and we could have toast as well and a tuna, red opinion and bean salad for lunch. Not quite as per Emily’s recipe but using the ingredients we have as Huon didn’t want to go to the shops this morning. He gets like that!
So all well, Although the forecast is not until 2000, we have just furled the big sail as we anticipate an increase in the wind overnight.
Peter Fabricius
Yacht Pemandia