RE: Day Three - light winds
Tripled
Fri 10 Jun 2011 13:26
Sounds good I cant believe you are heading back to England, it is
fascinating reading where everyone is....quite sad that we have all split up
but a very good season and wishing you a great trip
Love
Graham, Nakesa
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Subject: Day Three - light winds
At 0030 UTC our position is 42:48.6N 22:59.5W (Although this won't get sent
until the morning, sorry about that!). It is currently varying 0-5 knots of
wind from a westerly(ish - very variable) direction. So we are motoring on
at 6 knots. For the first time in ages we have some favourable current! Only
0.2 knots though so don't get too excited.
We turned the engine on at 0200 last night as the wind dropped and veered
round so that we couldn't continue to sail on our course. This afternoon the
wind died completely, the ocean becoming that glassy flat way we have gotten
so used to(!) and it flicked around to behind, making it much warmer.
Tomorrow may well be a bikini day!
The seasickness patch has made James hallucinate slightly - seeing thumb
prints everywhere he looked for a short while last night - and he is still
sleeping a lot. However, he woke up in order to beat us all at scrabble this
afternoon. Mid-game mum cries "whale!!!". I kept an eye on her in case this
was a trick to distract us while she looked for better letters, she has been
known to do this in the past. But no, there actually was a whale off our
starboard side, incredibly close and unbelievably big. At least as long as
the boat, we think it was a sperm whale. The whale only showed us part of
it's long back, however, before diving deep/swimming somewhere away from us
so we were able to continue our game! That's all on the wildlife front but
at least the boys can cross off both whales and dolphins now.
We got very excited at the prospect of a beautiful sunset as the sky was
beautifully clear at about 8pm. As is always the way, the sun sank into a
bank of cloud and there went the sunset - very unspectacular. We then sailed
into cloud so no stars tonight. I think I might have forgotten what a clear
sky looks like?!!
Curry for dinner and a few glasses of a Portuguese red wine.
The forecast is for the winds to increase maybe tomorrow, maybe overnight,
but from a south-westerly direction that should sweep us nicely towards the
Channel. A bit more speed would be nice as it has been quite slow-going
today!
Back to watch (not that there is anything to see at all!)