A GREAT FIRST 24 HOURS
Aquila
Alan and Sarah Bennett
Mon 2 Jun 2008 18:38
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33:40.90N 62:42.20W
What wonderful sailing! Our first night on
this leg was very tranquil - indeed, a bit too tranquil. We have broken
into 3 watches of 3 hours each at night, and 4 hours by day. Tom and Sarah
took the first night watch from 2000 20 2300, then Ian did from 2300 - 0200, and
Alan 0200 - 0500. The wind was a bit fitful, but pretty steady in
direction from S. For most of the night we were making just over 4 knots,
and by 1000 this morning we had fallen off the edge of the large scale chart
showing the approaches to Bermuda. So now we are on the chart that covers
the whole of the Atlantic, and we will be crawling across it at about 1cm a day!
Today the wind has filled in a bit, pretty steady
from SW at force 3, giving us around 6kts. The sun is shining, the sea is
a deep blue, the skipper has taken a successful sun-run-sun sight, breakfast was
a full fry up, lunch al fresco, and the skipper who has the 4hr afternoon watch
feels he is in a ghost ship as everyone else is snoring!
With over 2 miles underneath the keel, there is no
danger of running aground. So there is plenty of time to enjoy it
all.........
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