Thanksgiving - for many reasons!
Amazing Grace
John and Julie
Fri 27 Nov 2009 12:18
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Its noon on Friday and we are at N21.41 W28.43 and
going well!
Thanksgiving day in the USA was originally a
celebration of sufficiency and so it was with us. We were blessed with a
sufficiency of fish in the form of 3 mahi-mahi (one of which, 'flipper' managed
a back-flip off the hook when it was being swung on deck). Well done
flipper!
 We also had some smaller fish that arrived
uninvited (Sorry about my teeth)!
 we were going to have a surprise Turkey dinner for
our US crew but we decided that fresh Mahi-Mahi was better. We fried him
lightly in olive oil and some lemon seasoning - delicious!
The sailing was slower than we would have liked
however by the end of the day we discovered that we were officially in 47th
place. We were still surprised but thankful we had not slipped back too
far. We had been seeing large yachts passing us slowly for the previous
day - all heading west. We maintain a westerly heading but not the great circle
route as we feel that the wind is not steady enough for us to do that yet.
We spoke with Nauta D who were very jovial.
All is well on board and we ate the last lettuce
today. (Note to self - get more lettuce next time!)
Thanks for your emails and messages - its good to
hear that the world is still turning - please refrain from sending pictures and
attachments though! :)
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