5th December
Fleck
Tue 5 Dec 2006 13:49
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More rollercoaster stuff these last 24 hours, but
no gain without pain, and we continue to make good progress. Our Atlantic map
now shows that we have a definite chunk of the journey behind us, and this is
encouraging.
High spot of yesterday afternoon, literally, were
the antics of some dolphins that came to visit. Acrobatics and belly flops, and
sometimes they just shot vertically out of the water for considarable
distances.
Wonder if you know what has become of the boat that
got into trouble the night before last. Did they have to abandon 'Compromise',
did they get everyone off? We may find out ourselves when we report in in a few
mins time. we were thinking that he was probably last in the fleet, and
that now we are!!
I spent yesterday afternoon in the bilges
rebuilding part of the watermaker: one device that is likely to prove more
trouble than it is worth!! At least it produced our standard 10 litres this
morning, and this has just been added to our main tank to keep it topped up.
Water for drinking has not been a problem, what I underestimated was the amount
we use to wash our selves, our food, kitchen ware, and clothes.We have developed
frugal ways of doing all these tasks, and in our opinion we both smell very nice
indeed. Even so a bath, a dishwasher and a washing machine are high on our list
of fantasy items, having rather given up on the clutch of mermaids: I think they
would be rather slimey and smelly like the flying fish! Ice cream would also do
it for me, Geoff, humble chap, would be content with pork scratchings, no doubt
with a pint of Enville bitter to wash them down.
We wonder whether to put more sail up, but better
to be in control, I think, especially during the night. We will just have to
live with being last!!
Richard and Geoff
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