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Tranquilizer
Sail Ionian
Sat 14 May 2011 05:51

Date:     Monday 9. May 2011,  UT,

Location: Latitude/longitude 2:01:45N 052:48:23W

 

We are in the dull drums, no wind to mention, a lot of experimenting with the head-sail, should it be in or out, the wind keeps backing and weaving, so while we are gently tugging along towards the 'point of no return' so named because one does not have enough provisions or fuel to motor back, in our case it will be the fuel status and the halve way point.

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Did I mention we had a bath on Saturday, if I did, it is certainly worth a second mentioning. One does get the odd halve sink of freshwater for a full body wash, but a bath. It lasted all but a minute, enough time to wash the hair. On that note, not washing hair, if you ever need to style your hair in some crazy fashion, just let it be, after 5 or 6 days when the initial itching has been and gone, you can set the hair in any old style and it stays, must be the grease from the scalp.

 

With little to do one always fall into the trap of talking about the food how it was prepared, ones little twist to otherwise proven recipes and so forth. So I will spare you and to close the topic once and for all we eat good and plenty, no one has complained so far.

 

Des on the other hand has fallen in love with Celestial Navigation and his sextant, he is turning into quit a pro at 'Sun sights' keeps telling me how easy it is, fun to see how we change to the better with a bit of training.

 

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First we find the sun, then bring it down and ,,,,,,,, then we read the Arc, pice of cake

 

Skipper Dan thought we needed a little treat and served us with the film China Town, long time no see. It must have been a sight seeing 5 grown men sitting around a laptop intensely watching film, the sound was routed over the cockpit loudspeakers.

 

Weather wise we should see some wind late tomorrow, which means another 24 hours tugging along.

 

We wish you a good beginning of your week to come and calm seas Per F

 

 

 



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