Mileage update and Man O' War 40 16.7N: 45 15.7W
Ellatrout3
Fri 6 Jun 2014 17:46
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One thing Im forgot to mention about my glassy calm
day as the su went down I was geting a mbucket f sea water to do the washin up a
fish nabout a foot long came nosing up to the bucket, it was the same shape as a
parrot fish but brown and smaller. It was ob viusly sheltering under the boat as
we sat in thewater going nowhere. There was a bit of oily slick as well
and I saw plastic bag float by.
A short while after I said to myself "There's that
plastic bag again, this time it was going to pass very close and I consided
hooking it out with the boat hook.As it came closer I realised it was a
Portugese Man O' War. I went for my camera but it had floated too far
away. Stone me it came past a third time and this time I was ready. The
current was obviously rotating us very slowly, by the fourth rotation it was
dark.
By popular request mileage update:
At the time of writing i.e. 1800 BST (1700
GMT/UTC) we have sailed 1951 and are 1187 miles from
Newport.
Love Poppa/Dad/Roger
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