A lovely night
True Colours
James Scrimshaw
Fri 30 Aug 2013 04:31
38:11.87N 011:32.32W
Nowhere of interest.
30/08/13
04:17 UTC
So what a perfect evening we have had. After a very enjoyable pasta
bolognaise cooked by fiona we settled into the evening with 2 reefs and peaks of
up to 24 knots of breeze. This allowed us to keep tramming along at 6-7 knots.
As the evening set in there was a bit of confusion over a fishing vessel with a
single flashing light, a tanker heading towards us, and a pilot on the radio
giving his uttermost foul language to the “banana boat” that he was expecting to
board and could not contact. All of this happened at once, hence the
confusion.
As we got towards 1am the winds lightened to a nice 15 knots, and both the
reefs were shaken out in an attempt to maintain boat speed and stability. No
change since then, currently sitting at 6 knots, only a few degrees off course,
with 632 miles to go!
The stars have been out like nothing else before, with the milky way being
as bring as daylight! Keeping up with jobs overnight... just about to clean the
bilge filter and then get some sleep. |