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Wind Charger
Bob and Elizabeth Frearson
Tue 13 Dec 2011 12:14
Bob is still fretting about the generators reluctance to start but is blaming it, most unfairly in my opinion, on the freezer.  I am having to stand up for the poor defenceless thing at the same time as preserving the integrity of twenty remaining suppers and the Christmas chicken.  I have to keep checking that he hasn’t surreptitiously turned it off.
He was considerably cheered up this morning by a dolphin show on his watch.  We have seen very little in the way of wildlife although Haley and Fleur were visited by a black and white bird with an orange crest (but definitely not a penguin) who flew elegantly between the jib and the mast.  A few preoccupied dolphins pottered by yesterday but that has been all.
We seem to have wandered 58 miles off course during the night.  This is due to changing tack yesterday but staying on it too long partly because it is on to the cooks preferred side and to give us a quieter ride.  The waves are much bigger today chasing up from behind and plunging through giving Wind Charger a last good wiggle as they go.  One in a hundred cheekily chucks bucket loads of ocean at us so we are all huddled under the spray hood.  I am determinedly wearing shorts today but the others are in their longs an swaddled in warm coats.  When will it get to the appropriate temperature for the Tropic of Cancer which we will be crossing any moment now?
PS I watched Black Swan last night.  Can anyone explain what on earth it is all about?