Noon Sunday 14th 32:12N 59:08W
Bellone
Sun 14 May 2023 15:33
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Despite the weather forecast predicting no or light
winds, since eight o'clock this morning we have had a usable breeze from the
north-east, and we are making 5.5 kts. Before that for twenty four hours, the
engine drove us on at a steady 4kts (@ 1800 r/m) and so we have covered 102
miles but crucially, we are now above 32*N and in a good place for the wind
tomorrow, providing the forecast hasn't hasn't changed.
At about ten o'clock his morning there was a gas tanker,
a dangerous goods tanker and little old me within a seven mile radius. It was
like Clapham Junction on a Friday evening. The gas tanker and Bellone were on a
CPA (closest point of approach) of less than a mile but the tanker obligingly
altered course a bit to pass two miles astern, as was his
responsibility.
It was interesting to note on the pilot chart, that in
1907, a vessel reported a sighting of a growler close to here, and another
vessel reported seeing ice berg in the same vicinity in
1908.
I'm sure climate change has put and end to these bergs
travelling so far south.
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