Bernie’s Blog - Day 15 – Saturday 4 June 2011

We are now starting our 3^rd week at sea and all is just fine. Just 575 miles to go which I estimate will have us in Horta on Thursday.

The afternoon was a frustrating time with light shifting winds however we did get a superb show from a group of about 20 Dolphins with a showboating “flypast”. Seeing these perform leaps in the Atlantic swell coming towards you is an outstanding experience.

We have now have a moderate breeze over a calm sea and a long Atlantic swell from the north west. Above us a thin layer of cloud to shield our delicate ‘dark brown’ skins. At this moment life could not be better.

Crew activities this Saturday morning include the skipper Peter demonstrating his braidline spicing skills by putting a soft eye in the spinnaker snuffer head rope.

Bernie (with assistance of Colin) is making bread rolls (Chris W please note!).

The bananas are ripe and ready and two were used in last evening’s excellent (nay superb) curry produced by our skipper - Madras egg curry and Bukhara dahl. Colin placed the standard and quality of this excellent meal in the same league as VJ’s  in Vancouver (Sylvia will understand).

The last of our St Maarten bread was used yesterday for lunch, together with last year’s tinned sardines. Very good.  So, yours truly has broken out a packet of bread mix (also from last year!) and as I write it is ‘proving’ in the warm engine room. If all works well we shall be eating fresh rolls, with soup and cheese for lunch.

We have no idea what is happening in the rest of the world but this relaxed and blissful feeling will surely be dashed before long.  Bye for now from the world of Susan Ayu & her motley crew ……..somewhere in mid-North Atlantic