Noon 12:27N 57:11W
Bellone
Sat 14 Jan 2023 15:21
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This is more like the champagne sailing I promised
Columba! The sea has calmed down and the sun is shining, the current is back in
our direction and we now have less that 250 miles to go, and it looks like
we will arrive around dawn on Monday.
When I went to the cockpit yesterday morning, there was
a dead flying fish on the cockpit grating. For a fleeting moment, I thought
about putting in on Columba's blanket, eyes facing hers, for when she woke up.
But then I thought of the pain and misery that would bring me in the days ahead
when the prank was over, and so I threw him back into the sea.
Over these last few days, we have begun to see a build
up of sargasso seaweed and this is similar to the experience I had eight
years ago when on leaving the Canary Islands I noticed the odd bit of
seaweed floating about but on approaching the Caribbean, there were great
swathes of the stuff everywhere. It's dense enough to cause problems with
speed impellers and water intakes.
Barbados is 133 miles away and it should be abeam of us
tomorrow at ten ish.
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