Chagos to Mauritius - Day 3
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Tue 1 May 2012 09:33
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12:02.537S 69:30.488E
May 1, 2012
Better.
The other two boats we are traveling with said exactly the
same this morning on the SSB radio. Better. It seems all three of us
were spit out of the ITCZ around the same time although we are spread out over a
distance of about 80 miles. After chewing us up for 24 hours, the ITCZ
released us early this morning. There was a bit of sun at dawn where
previously there was just a lighter shade of gray. This afternoon it's
partly sunny. It's good to see some blue.
There has been plenty of wind, at times as high as 30 knots,
but usually around 20-22. Not so bad except that we are sailing into it
(as we knew we would have to on this passage). Struggling to pull
ourselves around the tilted boat from head to galley to pilot berth, and
to sit without sliding off the helm seat just confirms our previous
thoughts about sailing hard on the wind - it sucks. There is a bright
side though! The toilet sandwich problem has been solved. Instead of
trying to hold the lid up while simultaneously trying not to slide off the seat,
a bungee cord has been expertly installed so the lid stays up on its own.
Brilliant!
All in all, our lives are suddenly very simple. We eat
what is already prepared - straight out of the containers. We drink water
because we can't be bothered to make tea or coffee (imagine Don without coffee
for three straight days - not pretty) and we sleep on a rotating 3 hours
on 3 hours off schedule. That's it. We will definitely deserve
our arrival champagne after this trip!
More tomorrow -
Anne
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