17 days at sea 9 Dec 2008
The EJ's Voyage
Mike Everton-Jones
Tue 9 Dec 2008 14:28
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Hi from falbala on our 17th day at sea. We are now
getting closer each day, and now we are guessing when exactly we will cross the
finish line, my own guess is late Mon afternoon. Ollie is working his
guess out with great precision, hoping to win the huge cash prize he reckons is
on offer. We have put our clocks back another hour, this caught Jamie out good
style last night, he came up from below 30 minutes early, complaining that we
had not shouted him in time for his watch, Ollie explained that he was in fact
early, when he realised his mistake he said something like 'arse' and promptly
fell asleep on the seat locker. After our failure at fishing yesterday the
skipper had the lines out before sunrise today in the hope of a big one, as yet
we have nothing but it is still early. Talking of fish, we ate more of the first
monster last night, it was so big that we still got loads left. Weather is good
today with a run through the night of around 7 knts average, nice fluffy clouds
- a good sign of fair weather. We passed two other yachts yesterday, both to the
north of us, but today we are on our own with no sign of any others. Mike has
been in contact with Gulliver and we should be sighting them in a couple of days
with the intention of finishing together, they may need a hand due to their
steering problems.
Before I sign off, a big happy birthday to my mum
back on the Isle of Man , 92 today - well done mum and I'll see you
soon.
Take care
y'all
Scutch.
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