Day 16 Atlantic Crossing
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Thu 22 Dec 2005 14:09
Day 15, Atlantic Crossing.
Position 13'N 58'W Thursday December 22nd.
Hello everyone. We're
running out of novel things to say now, just to report 360' of ocean yet
again. The seas are a bit calmer than yesterday, which is just as well, as
the spinnaker got in a wrap around the cutter shroud. Chris had to go up
the mast to unravel it, which was a bit hairy for him, but he managed it in
under ten minutes, which is pretty good. One of our friends spent
two hours mid-Atlantic sorting out his spinnaker......
We had a phone call from
Maria today which cheered us all up, she had been looking after Otti and Mimi
since they were babies, so it was lovely to hear a familiar voice!
The flying fish flocks
avoided us last night, thank goodness, so no more THUMP flicketty flacketty
awakenings.
We have had emails from
three other boats with kids, all already anchored in Bequia, and we really think
we are going to make it sometime on Friday night, Poseidon willing.
We might have to nose into the anchorage in the dark using the GPS and a bow
lookout, but that should be easy compared to coming into Finnesterre in dense
fog.
I really will feel like
celebrating Christmas: because it will mean that we will have this humungous
crossing behind us.
Mimi is busy making paper
people cutout models, of angels and Santa Claus and kings for the
nativity. Otti is playing SIMS, and has a computer guinea pig.
I am rapidly running out of things for them to do on board. Steve is
chasing the sun and the moon with his sextant. I learnt where Capella and
Regulis and Spica and Canopus were in the heavens last night.
Lunch: packet pasta and
sweetcorn. Supper: Cous-cous and sponge cake with pineapple chunks and
jelly!!