Curacao to Jamaica 12th February 2007
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Wed 14 Feb 2007 22:01
Curacao to Jamaica 12th
February onwards....
We are into our third day
of what has been a really truly horrible passage. There have been
strong 30 knot plus winds, and huge seas, with little waves living on big waves,
with their tops blowing into spume, with patches of white foam flying down their
flanks. The big waves are like a moving landscape, leviathans,
coming grandly under, over and round the Sarah Grace, who has been like a storm
tossed cork. We have been fighting over the sick bucket. Mimi has
been worst off, and was still repeatedly getting sick this morning, third day
out.
With sea sickness, a sense
of hopelessness sets it quickly, the feeling of being interminably trapped
on this careening boat for days and days is horrible. Our fresh water
tanks are now brine, as on the first night we were being and pitched and rolled
so much that we think that sea water got into them through the breather
hole. So we are drinking water from jerry cans, which we have plenty
of.
Today has been a bit
better. We cooked and ate some rice, and it has not reappeared
yet.