Sandpiper 1200 BST 14 May
Sandpiper
Sat 14 May 2022 11:39
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45:10.4N 010:59.2W
Spend yesterday afternoon in sunshine hand-steering
under spinnaker to try to gain a little speed, I also trolled a fishing
line. I'm not sure that hand steering and landing a fish are compatible, perhaps
fortunately I failed to find out by catching anything. The spinnaker came down
at dusk and shortly afterwards the wind increased to f4; needing
a reef to slow Sandpiper to 5kt to avoid crashing over waves. A
new sight for me yesterday afternoon was white surface streams, couple of yards
wide and 100s long. They looked like bubbles, but close up the bubbles were
dense streams of tiny Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish, not yet big enough to
show colours but the larger bubbles had visible sails. I don't know anything
about their lifecycle but this seemed to be a massive
spawning.
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