6th 24 hours 44:12.38N 15:06.62W
Ellatrout3
Fri 6 Jun 2008 16:37
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Report to 1400hrs 06/06/08
Light airs persist - never thought I would prefer
strong windy days to beautiful sunny ones, but there you go! I'm
sure I would have enjoyed the sunny day better yesterday if I was
confident I was getting the best out of Ella Trout but I new I wasn't.
I've heard from Raymarine - all the sales chat and welcoming blurb - but no
information. yesterday descended (descended? - from a sailors point of view that
is) from a beautiful sunny day with big smooth rolling waves and just enough
wind to push south with no steerage, no matter what the Wind Pilot or I
did, to an oily calm. So after Paul's help in contacting Raymarine I went
to bed for the first time since I left Plymouth and did not set the
alarm!?
I woke a couple of times anyway in the night and
popped my head out and once my heart gave leap, there was a light, there
shouldn't be any ships here, I looked again, there was certainly alight, a white
light, was it a stern light and had he sailed past me and missed me? I watch it
for some time and thought it might be a yacht's mast head light not far away, it
was about the right height, I got the night binoculars - it was a star rising
out of the mist. I went back to bed.
This morning it was still an oily calm, but by 0800
a little wind got up straight out of the Azores, i.e.SW, just enough for the
wind pilot and me to tack down it very roughly on course. At the time of
writing 1700hrs it has just strengthened a little to about force 2 - 7 or 8
knots. The Spanish met office forecast is a NE 4/5, but its still a
light SW here.
Miles sailed in the last 24 hours 39, trip now
reading 750 and CMG from Plymouth 579 miles
Poppa/Dad/Roger
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