It's a start...
Rhiann Marie - Round the World
Stewart Graham
Tue 17 Nov 2009 21:32
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At 1000 hours on Monday 16th November the year of
our Lord Two Thousand and Nine the good ship Rhiann Marie left Las Palmas in
Gran Canaria with Run Rig's Loch Lomond blasting at full volume and
encouragingly all crew looking and acting the part. Time will
tell.......
We have run 186 miles in our first 24 hours. We are
now at 25:17.7N 018:11.87W and it is Day two on
the big brother boat and I have had to come to the diary room because Craig
has now been boasting for thirteen minutes about his call to get all canvas up.
This has been annoying the other crew mates as we are sure the wind just
conveniently picked up and he and his watch mate Murdo were able to bask in
their glory about effortlessly cruising along at 10 + knots directly to our way
point which is just NW of the cape verdes.
Angus and I have had smoke coming off the
calculator as we have been furiously calculating and re-calculating ETA in the
carribean - of course a bit premature as the game has only just begun. We expect
a passage time of between 18 and 21 days and a passage distance of about 3000
miles. While of course anything can happen there is also a possibility of
arriving sooner. The possibility of catching decent fish however is diminishing
as is our stock of lures. I have to confess to a bit of a foopah through the
night when we forgot to reel in the rods before performing a Gori manouvre and
chopped the two most frightening lures I have ever seen off their lines. Then
today two massive strikes in rapid succession led to the loss pf another two
lures. We will soon be down to handlines and flies and hoping for mackrel or
just sitting and waiting for the flying fish coming to us - at the moment that
seems like our best prospect so we are getting on with eating
mince.
Speak soon.
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