We hit something this morning 04.45.9 S 127.45.5W
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Sun 2 Jun 2013 22:03
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At about 4 am this morning we sailed onto something
hard. We cannot see any damage from the inside of the boat but the knotmeter has
given up right when it happened. It was dark at the time, Ellinor was on watch
and she says something splashed right behind us. A whale? We will probably never
know.
Sailing around in the dark, you have to be aware
that something can be hit, and the nightmare is of course a container that is
submerged.
There is nothing much to do about it, we have
to sail on and wait for an opportunity to go down under the water and see
her from the outside.
The wavetrain from south has not reached us yet, so
we could have our water and clean session today on aft deck. Really nice.
Since we lost the good bucket to get water up we use something called the
fire hose. Salsa has a high pressure pump that can either be used to empty
the bildge or to pump up seawater for example to put out a fire ( a small one
with no diesel involved I guess). This is what we use now to clean us
before we end the session with a fresh water shower.
Right now Erika is reading Madicken (a Swedish
classic childrens book) loud for Andreas. Ellinor is sleeping. And I'm answering
mails etc.
I was almost forgetting, yesterday afternoon, right
after dinner, the 200 dolphin show came by again. Their performance lasted at
least over an hour. They seem to love to conquer Salsa, swimming right in front
of her bow or jump on the sides.
The whole sea is boiling when they show up, you can
see them close, far away, right under, no not above us,
yet.
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