Atlantic Crossing - 50 degrees west crossed
Stargazer of Southampton
Susie and Adam (both think they are skipper)
Sun 9 Jan 2011 12:51
09:01.11, 14:11.03N 52:13.68W
Adam made a cake yesterday to celebrate us crossing
the 50 degrees West point, I made the icing. It was a sandwich cake -
these are now banned from being made on the boat as they are not sturdy enough -
the icing sandwiching it together took a while to set in which time the cake on
the top slid back and forth getting slightly more broken with each slide.
Cake still tastes the same, very nice - Adam did a good job with no scales
since electronic scales don't work on a rocking boat - but we have to eat our
cake pile off a plate with a fork.
Quite a hard night last night as we had to gybe
yesterday afternoon as we were getting too far north, the swell and waves are
not behaving and not all coming from the same direction and last night was like
being on a rollercoaster, riding up and down some big waves this morning.
I have been trying to do my homework for my oceanmaster exam by taking sun
sightings - no idea how you ever get them accurate with the boat moving about so
much, my theory is that I will take a lot and then some of them have to be
right.
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