The crew updates
Yacht Ariel
Henry Adams
Fri 30 Nov 2007 13:37
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Ahoy,
Well here we are then five days in. Breaching
whales, gusts of up to force 9, sheet lightning, nea\misses with other vessels,
waterspouts, nuclear submarines, cold beer - none of these have we yet seen
or enjoyed. I am, however, reliably informed by the skipper at this exact
moment, that you can't beat the view from the loo bucket - I bet the other boats
are jealous.
Routine appears to be now almost attained and we
are both feeling farily happy with it, or as happy as we ever will be sleeping 3
hours at a time. We ae both steadily trudging through Harry Potter on audiobook
and this is peculiarly affecting the way we talk, as being the only constant
external influence uppon us. We have even already found time for a game of
scrabble (harder than it sounds on a rolling boat) and some cards, while my
culinary genius continues to live up to its own high standards.
We are (hopefully) coming out of a few days' light
winds and will be able to pick up speed again as it's fairly depressing doing
under 100 miles in a day - I really do rather want to be in for Christmas. Those
of you intereseted in my folicular facial state will be happy that the beard
continues to grow apace and that I may well resemble a rhodedendron bush by the
time we get in. Must go now as battery time short and apparently we need to use
it to do stuff like get weather and report pur position.
Lots of love
Foshy
p.s. apologies for the lack of flair in this
update, it has had to be written very quickly
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