Position update - Tuesday 14 August 16:35
The Adventures of Tin Man
Andy Topp & Steve Arnold
Tue 15 Aug 2023 15:46
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47:36.61N
005:48.7W
what three words - care.souped.lumped
Despite it's fierce reputation, the Bay of Biscay
has so far turned out to be the most mundane segment of the trip with flat seas,
beautiful sunshine and absolutely no wind. The opposite end of this scale is
much less favourable so we are all happy to have a flat boat and be able to
finally take off the offshore wet weather gear and dry the boat out a bit. We
are expecting this to be the case until early tomorrow when hopefully the wind
picks up and we can turn the engine off. We are still approximately 275 nautical
miles from the other side of the Bay of Biscay so still plenty of time for
things to change.
To celebrate Andy's birthday, and again taking advantage
of the flat conditions, we are going to have a nice steak dinner later.
Unfortunately for Andy, his watch finishes at 6 which means he's also on dinner
duty!
We have continued to be accompanied by pods of dolphins
for large sections of the trip but we were surprised earlier to see a shark
alongside the boat. With no data - only email - we are all a bit curious as to
what sort it was but that'll have to wait until we get to A Coruna.
Steve
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