Restless Atlantic Report 2
Restless of Auckland
Roland and Consie Lennox-King
Mon 14 May 2007 17:23
We are currently at 34"47'N and 59"31.5'W heading
approx. due East at a speed of 6 knots. We have 4 sails up and 12 knots of wind
from the south-west.
We heard from Herb, the weather man last night, and he advised us to sail east. The
wind is looking pretty favorable for us at this point. I guess we will check in
again tonight for an update. It only took Herb 2 hours to get through the
boats on his list before getting to us, advising them all of their best
routes and what their predicted whether would be. Pretty impressive, since everyone radios in their positions half
an hour before he starts direction everyone around the Atlantic. It seemed as
though everyone was either heading for Bermuda or to the Azores so it looks like we're doing the right
thing.
The night before last we motored most of the time
and most of yesterday we had the engine running as the wind has been pretty
light however this morning it's looking promising so here's hoping that we have
some good sailing ahead of us and some good boat speed.
Not much has been happening around us, we've
spotted another oil tanker, a few planes, more Portuguese man of war's and
we had a friendly bird following us for about 3 hours yesterday evening. He kept
flying up ahead of us and landing, drifting down past the boat and then flying
back up again. Was very exciting for us! Oh and Oliver had a strike on the lure
in the early hours of this morning, but it took
the new pink lure and ran. Must have been a big one!
Well thats about it from us, everyone's well and
boats running perfectly!