Thursday 2nd July Position 48:31N 9:56W
Adventuress
Richard Coles
Thu 2 Jul 2009 12:26
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Thursday 2nd July
Position 48:31N 9:56W
We ended Tuesday evening with Mark and Paul
spotting another whale blow off to starboard but we didn't see much other than
that, always seems to be around this time now starting to expect to see
them. We enjoyed a wonderful meal of lasagne, salad and feeling so much
better decided to lash out and make a dessert for everyone as well so with full
stomachs the later watch boys went off to bed and Mark, Phillipa and I sat
down and played a great couple of games of Mexican Dominoes, lots of fun.
Our weather Tuesday overnight was good with
10-20knots from the Sth and kept us on course with smooth
seas so a good nights sleep for us all. Woke
up to a lovely sunny day and a slight sea, but we can see lots of cloud around
so will build up no doubt. After viewing the weather chart looks like we may
have to motor for a couple of hundred miles due to no wind but a lot of lows
around, so we will have to keep an eye on things. At midday Wedsnesday we have
only 470 nautical miles to go, looking forward to getting there. Our midday
position for Wednesday is 47:34N 12:39W.
Phillipa cooked a fantastic chicken curry last
night so we are not starving......even though we have all lost
weight!!
Woke today Thursday quite late, due to the lovely
calm night both motoring and sailing, I was able to move from my spot on the
floor in the main saloon back to our forward cabin up in the bow, although
everything was very damp, it was a good nights sleep and didn't wake till nearly
9.30am. The engine sounded different and seemed to be surging, and about an hour
and half later she died, so we are sitting with 202 nautical miles to go until
'The Lizard' plus we have no wind, so drifting about on the edge of the
continental shelf at present while Richard having just finished his bacon butty,
now has his head down in the engine room trying to fix it!! Lets hope that
happens soon, as although we have enough tinned food for at least 2wks we really
would like to back on Saturday and eating a ploughmans special at a local pub
and a good pint of english beer.
This morning Mark on his watch saw a fin off the
bow, and suddenly saw a Minke whale do a dive, he thought about calling us all
up but it would of been all over by then so he tells us!, we all are skeptical
about this story coming from Mark......after all his great fishing losses as
well!! So I leave it to you readers of our blog to have the
final say......
Hopefully we will be underway in the next hour or
so......................... yes Richard has
got us going. (Well done Richard).
While we were sitting waiting for Richard, I
spotted some whale blows and Phillipa and I spotted a pilot whale off the port
side, then we saw another two blows about 200m off the port stern, then we
all saw a huge pod of pilot whales off our starboard side about 100m away there
was about 100 or so all travelling in a SE direction in family groups of 4 or 5
or even two. With the flat sea and beautiful sun shining it was an awesome sight
indeed and took a good half an hour for them all to pass by, directly followed
by a small pod of dolphins the same distance away from the boat diving fast
through the water heading in the same direction as the pilot whales they looked
like they were feeding as travelling so fast. What a magnificent sight to see
for us all, we were all mesmerized by it, probably cost us £100's pounds to view
what we saw. So Mark's story is looking like it may be true!!
Well a beautiful day, with cloudy skies ahead but
we have broken into shorts once again, and Phillipa dying to get a tan is
sunbathing in her bikini.
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