Sun, spinnaker and beer
Blanshard
Sat 29 May 2010 02:08
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42 19.00 N 70 33.00 W
At last departure for the wilds of the
Atlantic...The three of us joined forces last night, Alastair, James and
Jonathan in Boston for a final going over Depeche, our Sweden 38 that is to take
us across the high seas. Fully fuelled up with food for 25 days+ and water
she looked a little lower at the waterline - and then Alastair loaded on his
backback from S America with not sure what in it. We set sail from Boston at 8 am with a blue sky, a following wind and
some beers handed to us by another departing boat - what a treat. The
spinnaker was dusted down and hoisted for a couple of hours but now back on to
genoa as the wind backed round to the South.
We are heading South east towards the Stellwagen
Bank in the hope of seeing some whales before we leave the civilisation of the
USA. All seems well with the boat though the wind indicator seems to have
packed in so we may never know what is thrown at us.
Now to send this and see if it really does what it
says on the box.
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