Atlantic Crossing round 2.
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Fri 25 May 2007 02:43
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A week has
already raced by since we arrived here.We have been steadily ticking off the
tasks on the job list even though we knew that strong headwinds were forecast
til the end of the week, so plenty of time to do everything before the next leg
you would have thought. Well, yesterday the forecast suddenly started to
look promising for departure tomorrow (friday morning) and now there is a big
rush to complete the last jobs. And guess what, today is a public holiday
so nothing is open for the pre-departure fresh food provisioning, filling
with water and diesel etc. Whatever, we will be ready for the off tomorrow.
This evening crews
from a motley collection of about 6 boats got together over a beer or two to
exchange contact details, radio schedules and frequencies, along with the
usual weather speculation, as we are all leaving in the same direction
tomorrow. We have arranged a twice daily chat time so we can keep an eye
out for each other, share advice and no doubt indulge in more hours of weather
speculation.
So,it is out to sea
in the morning, destination the Azores, about 1800miles
away.
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