Last leg..
Enterprise
Russ Altendorff
Sun 27 May 2012 11:20
50.09.783N
003.45.711W
Last leg, now the wind is right on the nose. Quite a bit of cargo traffic
to avoid, as always heading right for us on our track – how does that happen?!
Patches of fog lasting about 10 mins then brighter sky, but overcast, lots of
rolling swell. Shame to be motor sailing in order to make some headway and get
into port at a decent time and on the high tide. At least we have the confidence
to do our night time watch keeping and we have had quite a bit of practice
having to gybe (initially) and now tack to avoid ships and lobster pots and to
keep the boat sailing in the very light winds – mostly less than 10kn through
the night. The map above is not true representation of our route it just
joins the dots of when we make a posting...the track was a lot more crooked than
the map shows |