wednesday
Yacht Ariel
Henry Adams
Thu 5 Jun 2008 16:19
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position: 37:08.7N, 56:22.6W
Favourable wind continues and averaged nearly 6
knts last night. H "accidently" threw our last bit of heavy fishing line
over in frustration from lack of success, so downsizing to spinner today.
Although we haven't caught anything yet, thinking about catching something
is on our minds a lot, good to always be suprised not to
have something on the other end. However we found our friend the
flying-fish's eye this morning, about 6ft up the mast! Quite impressive
point of impact...
Other things of note to the crew
- the open-air bathroom (aka cockpit) is great. Rolling
around the middle of an ocean, getting naked and bucket showering or
going for a No 2 while watching the sun set on the horizon (again in a
bucket but a different one i hasten to add) is an awesome
experience! Best to remove images of big swell and any notion of bucket
reflux though! ;)
3 card excrement shuffle (shithead to the
non-gentleman sailor) tally will suprise many i'm sure, 10 (H) : (J) 5.
Best to keep the skipper's ego going early in the trip i suppose.
500 miles behind us; 1300 ahead.
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