Birds on board 05.43N80.21W
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Wed 24 Apr 2013 23:16
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So writing about the challenge of finding wind we
have made a progress of 170 miles the first 24 hours!
Last night Salsa was moving at a speed over 10
knots at times!
I know I know, we will eventually hit low wind
situations. What we hope is that the seas will flatten out as well, because they
are rather choppy, to say the least.
The animal corner...
The day started out with a crow on board, probably
it needed a rest, there aren't many places out here...
Next thing is that we catch two Spanish mackerels,
small and a larger.
And finally we have hunted some kind of finch in
the boat all afternoon. Very strange bird, refused to leave us, it could even
sit on Erikas finger or in her hair. It tried to get some bites of our apples
hanging in a net. It kept part of the family busy for a couple of hours...Maybe
it wants to go to Galapagos
Human corner...
All feeling well, Ellinor and I are tired after the
first nights round but we will catch a rutine.
Erika and Andreas are playing school right
now.
Technical corner
No comments, thank god. Our Hydrovane is working
hard in the waves.
Weather corner
We are staying on 80 degrees west to keep the wind
strong from behind. Ackording to the gribfiles we will loose wind if we start
heading west. As we have a Pacific Pan Net we can discuss weather and it seemes
like the other agree with us.
By the way I was net controller this morning on the
net.
Philosophical corner
Full moon last night, the stars look different down
here. Approaching the equator...
All knowledge about weather patterns etc has to be
reversed.
New stars to look at.Who are we in this huge
Universe?
Stars that where shining before we even crawled
aroud on four legs.
Galapagos being the birth place for the Evolution
theory.
What difference does that make?
This little shell made of
glassfibre and wood, floating with us on this blue planet,
moving along with the wind created by the
instability of air masses.
The equator being the "pump" where the hot air
rises and starts its journey to the poles,
in steps of course, but still. The equator, the
closest you can get to the sun being on this planet.
There are always more questions than answers and
usually an almanack,
TV channels and other influences can stop us from
thinking, and maybe realize how small we are....
Fun corner
The sight of Ellinor coming up from beneath where
she was sleeping.
No clothes on, got red rubber gloves on and grabbed
the fish with one
hand and poured alchohol in the mouth with the
other.
Then she opened it up and cleaned it in 60 seconds
and went back to bed...
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