La Gomera to Guadeloupe
Salamander
Fri 27 Nov 2009 13:03
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26.07.156n 20.04.589w
Set sail for the caribbean. An eventful start, had
to motor to get out of the wind shadow of La Gomera sheltering us from the trade
winds. A screeching alarm let us know that the engine had overheated. No wind,
no engine and we are travelling backwards at 0.9knots. There was a lot of
rubbish, plastic bags etc in the waterthat had probably floated into the water
intake for the cooling system. We let it rest for a while and thankfully the
obstruction floated away abd off we went.
We are making slow progress across the Atlantic and
hope it will take about 4 weeks (at best).
Atlantic grey dolphins kindlhy gave us an aerobatic
farewell display.
All we can see is the blue ocean now and we are
certainly going to have to get used to this!
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