Tuesday 30th June Position 46:28N 15:51W
Adventuress
Richard Coles
Tue 30 Jun 2009 11:20
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Tuesday 30th June
Position 46:28N 15:51W
Hi Back Again, a wee problem with a sickness they
call Sea....quite surprising really as haven't had a touch of it, but must of
gained my land legs quickly on reaching Terceira and it was a rolling sea when
we left as did not let up really, but came right after 3 days, not a very
pleasant thing to experience and thanks to all those to warned me what to expect
and ways of dealing with it...!! {Who ever invented it I ask?} Great to have
Phillipa on board who took over my role as chef and kept the men fed. {Thanks
Phillipa your a trouper} We experienced another Force 9 gale with high
winds and rolling seas, seas not quite as high as our last Force 9 with top wind
recorded at 48knots but lots of rain and wind never the less it was with us for
all of Sunday night and still had rolling seas yesterday morning, but by late
afternoon the sun was shining and seas had abated. Once again the dolphins
visited on track each day and we saw our fair share of petrels, Phillipa was
keen to spot some whales and yesterday (Monday) she saw some blows off the
stern about 4 of them and huge blows heading into the sunset, we
judged by the size of the blow they must of been Sperm Whales, oh to have seen
them closer up would of been magnificent, but they were too far away. Last night
we saw another blow but again too far off the starboard side to see any more,
hopefully tonight one may come closer for Phillipa to get a good look. We
all had a good nights sleep last night the first since we left the Azores
as reasonably calm sea, and making good on our rhum line too, looking
at the chart plotter we have as of today 615 nm to reach our
destination of the Isle of Wight, so we are flying through the ocean on our
way home, with good wind and no calms so far it is great, I guess feeling like
we need to make land and stop now, with just on a month at sea I
feel I have experienced it enough and quite happily live on
land. Will be proud of my efforts to achieve this crossing and have
the chance to do it, another thing ticked off the 'Bucket List'. We have just
checked the weather chart for the next couple of days, and some highs on the
way, so if we get the edge of them we will get good Southerly winds
all the way to the UK. That what we are getting now and sailing on at 7knots
racing back. Saw our first big ship on this section of the crossing
last evening looks like an oil tanker crossing from the US to the UK,
amazing our we look forward to ships crossing!! Have tried again contact
our friends on 'Aponuvi' on the VHF but to no avail so we can only deduce
they are out of range, good to get there before them as they are fast on the
water and nice to have a little competition in play.
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