On Route to Bermuda
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Sat 12 May 2007 23:21
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Position N27 50' W73
50'
What is this sailing all
about? just as you think your getting somewhere you get a forecast of a storm
ahead, so now we are sailing east to avoid the worst but that doesn't take us a
lot closer to our destination. So far the winds have been light and not all
together favourable but we are plodding along and everyone is in the grove of
life on board. There are the plus sides of watching the Dolphins play, today we
had a large pod that came very close to the boat and started doing the most
amazing things. I thought that they must have been trained at Disney Land with
all there leaps and co-ordinated jumps, if only we had a beach ball !! Life
takes on a very relaxed easy pace, even the night watches are easy as there are
very few ships to worry about and you can still do the watch in T-shirt and
shorts, although we have definately left the tropics behind as the nights are
getting shorter with just a hint of freshness to the night air. Doing the noon
sight on my sextant also give an indication of progress. When we started out the
noon site was taken at around 13.30h local time, now my sight is taken in the
same hour as London, albeit 50min later. Tomorrow should see us pass the halfway
point to Bermuda although we will still have a bit of sailing to do after that.
Still we'll plod on and see what happens, hopefully Bermuda will be more "yacht
friendly" and compact than America.
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