Day 6 28 Nov 2008
The EJ's Voyage
Mike Everton-Jones
Fri 28 Nov 2008 13:52
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Day 5,
After 4 days of heading south and still with the
sense that we're just offshore even though we have been out of sight of land
since the first night, yesterday we were able to make a decisive turn
directly due west to make the big push across the pond, with the
wind at around force 4 and Falbala was sailing comfortably at her natural
pace 8- 8.5 knot with the following rolling seas, her wards have been randomly
subjected to some pretty funky rock n rolling here and there!!!!
But there is now a very real sense
that we getting done what we came to do! Ship life seems to have quickly
fallen into a comfortable routine the days are flying by, in fact it may be
considered proper grafting to completing any additional task, (such
as airing a sleeping bag) on top of the normal routine watches,
eating & most importantly the regular taking onboard of
liquids! I think Ollie almost missed yesterday as quite unbelievably
packed in 3 extra curricular activities, the most notable being his
orchestration of our fleet from HMS Falbala in a clear victory in
battleships over the fleet controlled by US warship Gulliver, the man
is a machine. Looking closer a particular morale
issue, Scutch seems to have been saved!!!! At approx 0900hrs this morn
we landed our first fruit of the sea, there should be photos up we're pretty
sure its a mahi mahi, watch this space for the culinary report; needless to say
it was a big bxxxard approx 15kg, 1.20m in length and that following this Scutch
should get a little reprieve from the constant berating from the malcontent
among the crew's from their displeasure with the lack of fish
landed up until now, as onboard fisheries expert he has bravely taken
this on the nose but this pressure teemed with the personal issue with
his nocturnal music has caused with his sleeping partner, must have
been becoming a heavy burden and some of us are much relieved for him,
as we were becoming a little worried for his mental
health.
With the revelation of the mornings haul the
captains wife is skilfully managing the rabbles over excitement to a
simmering lever of happy celebration, cocktails all round but no
chasers. The Captain is imbued with confidence as man on top of his
game always is, his pilotage has us in a good position in the fleet, we
have just registered our best sailing day chocking of 170nm, and as I am witness
to crew moral is on a robust state.
On a personal note, Em' send me an e-mail, subject
to me and let me know how you are, I tried to send one to ur work address
wed but came back rejected as spam yesterday! So will e-mail
boats address to my hotmail account that you can go into retrieve. Xxx
J
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