Daily Update 01 May 2009 - Slow going
Questionable Logic
Ewan Briggs
Sat 2 May 2009 20:22
Position at 1600 GMT-5: 3 35.4N
81 23.4W
An even slower day,
just 110nm. Mostly under engine, with some upwind motorsailing. We've found
some wind in the last couple of hours, and are now close hauled on port making
about 6kts in about 12kts of wind. Unfortunately we're being pushed a little
north of our ideal track, but hopefully the winds will back again as per the
forecast.
So some very
pleasant sailing this afternoon, the seastate is very slight so although we're
heeled over we're not getting wet or crashing into any waves. Looking at the
weather it's going to be more of the same for the next day or
so.
We had a couple of
light shapes swimming alongside us last night for quite some time - a couple of
hours. We couldn't figure out what they were - each time we used the torch all
we could see was the surface of the water. They were about 3-4m long and we
recon could have been whales. We bore away briefly to see if they would follow,
and they did. No sign of them today though.
Not much luck on the
fishing front - although green muppet did come in with what looked to be a fish
jawbone attached - at least some evidence of activity. We've recently deployed
pink fluffy 2 - of which I have high expectations! There are definitely fish
about - we've seen a few tuna jumping out of the water just to leeward of the
boat - taunting us perhaps??
Had some drinks cans
explode on us early this morning - they're in the bilges near to the engine and
couldn't cope with the heat after 12hours of
motoring...