Day 6 28 Nov 2008

The EJ's Voyage
Mike Everton-Jones
Fri 28 Nov 2008 13:52
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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