36:34N 11:44W Feels like the Med already
The Snark on The ARC
Ben Little
Thu 2 Jun 2011 14:37
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Hi Folks,
We are not in sight of land yet but the weather
feels warmer the wind as well, there is traffic on the VHF and also shipping
(mostly coming at you at night). Some say you can taste the land
but I can only taste the rather salty Portuguese sausages we had for
lunch. We are even able to catch some sun if you stay
out of the wind which is still blowing around 10 Knots, not as
helpfully as before off the beam, it has slightly hardened but we are still able
to get almost 7 Knots without recourse to the old iron mainsail.
If it fades we have 450 litres of fuel to blast
home with so we will definitely be there by Saturday, there are 298 Nm
to the waypoint just off Tarifa and maybe 10 miles beyond. Two more nights
at sea then we arrive and perhaps by tomorrow morning we are
cruising past the coast of Portugal. We have a passenger today a
dove (no olive branch) and a very tired one at that. It arrived at 8am and
had been perching on various parts of the boat for about 5 hours. I
hope this particular flower of the sea (Quentin's favourite quote "birds are
the flowers of the sea") does not leave a deposit of fertiliser behind when
it leaves.
 Ben and the Crew of The Snark
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