A baby that starts smoking in mamas tummy 03.15S101.58W
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Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Wed 22 May 2013 19:54
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Today sum of miles the last 24 hours was not as
good as previous, 166nM, but it is still good when the wind has been around 10
knots.
Thank god we are not sailing dead downwind. Today
we have sailed the gennacker and that gave a very good speed, but as we are
approaching a less steady atmosphere we took it down an hour ago.
The waves are about 3 meter but they are looooong,
so the rolling is gentle.
The current is going South West with a speed of 1,7
knots ackordning to our instruments, this means that if we sail 270 degrees we
will end up about the waypoint 3S 101W.
Ackording to the weatherguru Bob McDavitt in NZ, that is the most favorable way
to go, wind and current wise. So far he has been very right., these four days at
sea we have averaged 169nM, wich is average speed of 7 knots. Considering
that we are very conservative with powering up sails, as we favour comfort and
sleep, it is very good.
Yesterday we had no fishing line out as we had to
much fish the previous day and we also needed to empty some left
overs.
We are very inspired by MIss My 5 day celebration
routine so the kids are of course talking about what to do tomorrow, we will see
what plans that come up. For those that do not know, MIss My celebrates every 5
days on board with cleaning themselves up and then have an extra good dinner or
some other extra vagansa.
Last night, I had just taken over the watch from
Ellinor, it was dark of course... Splash! just a meter from where I was
sitting a quite big
octopus(or do you call them squid?) landed on
the seat. It had BIG eyes and a lot of arms ( I wished I had that many when
sailing), it started to crawl and tried to get back somehow, I called Ellinor up
and as the scientist she is in her soul she started to study the poor thing
until she threw it back in the water again. They have some kind of escape reflex
where they can pump water like a small jet to get away from predators. It sounds
quite funny when they try this above the water.
Being inspired by other boats: we had
sharades with the family on Sirius, actually on my birthday in Las Perlas. This
is something our kids loved and wanted to play again. One evening in Galapagos
we had dinner and then the kids decided we had to do it.
When Andreas turn came he laid down in a sofa, made
himself to a ball and started to cough.
We guessed just about everything and at the end he
had to tell us: - It is a baby in mamas tummy, his mother accidentally swallowed
a cigarett so he started smoking and now he is dying...-
It makes you wonder what's happening in some kids
heads.
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