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Wandering Dream
Steve Litson
Mon 1 Feb 2016 10:14
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15:08:9S 021:15:7W
Monday 1st February 2016
Pinch, Punch, First of the Month and no Returns!
At Last
The wind came back last night and we have be going great guns ever since.
We are still ahead of schedule and this should help to keep us there. The waves
have built up slightly, which is inevitable with more wind, and we are rolling
more, but still comfortable. Breakfast in sunshine, in the cockpit, cafetiere /
coffee press as well.
Hiscock
Many of you may have read their account of the travels in “Wanderer.” Crew
member David Whitaker, has been recently been reading their account and sent me
much appreciated extracts from St Helena and it seems not much has changed since
their voyage in 1953, when they were swinging ashore in just the same way we
did. We encountered dolphins again yesterday, we still get excited about seeing
them, but this is what the Hiscock’s encountered after leaving St Helena:
One interesting thing that happened to
them was they were attacked by a
spearfish - 1,000lbs with a three-foot spear: they can swim at nearly 70 mph. It attacked them over the taffrail and became wedged in their twin bobstays securing the bumkin to the hull - it tore one of the rods off. They can do serious damage: Hiscock says "..in the British museum there is a piece of timber twenty-two inches thick completely transfixed by the spear of one of the powerful and belligerent creatures." Miles travelled in the last 24 hours: 125 miles
To go: 1081 miles. We should reach half-way
tonight. |