"43:12.210N 09:14.30W"
Lady of Avalon
Guy & Deborah Tolson
Wed 8 Jul 2009 09:40
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Tuesday 8th July- 9.30 BST
Under engine since 3.00am this morning
Winds very light NN/W , and
under sail and with the swell its just lolloping about
But we had made good progress preceeding with
average speeds over 7knts
320NM achieved for the 2 days - that's a
straight line from Audiern to our boat position, but we actually show a trip log
of 390nm for these 2 days, as of course you never sail a straight
line
Now 30 nautical miles off Cabo Villano N/W Spain
having made a decision to carry on to Bayona a further 100 miles or so ,
hopefully we will pick up the northerly trades when we get round the N/W corner
of Spain
Everyone well and and Debs is recovered back
in full flow
Picked up 30ft of fishing net (thick stuff) around
the prop at 6.00am this morning and had to manhandle it off
This could have caused us serious problems
but all action hero John Bonsor was on the scene and quickly got the engine
out of gear, shinned down into the dinghy (no easy thing in ocean swell)and
pulled it free.
All this badly aided
by a very sleepy skipper (having been off watch at that time) and director of
operations-from the side rails- Deborah
This area is the worst possible sea area
catching unwanted lines and nets on your propellers which get discarded or
lost from the many deep sea fishing vessels out here
Not all bad out here as plenty of Dolphin have swum
along side, sometimes large pods, and they occasionally look up at
you as they leap out of the water saying "I can see you- look at me I
can swim faster than you " and off they go and dive under the boat and zoom off.
At night they look like a torpedo coming at the boat ,as you don't really
see the Dolphin just their florescence in the water as they rush at
you
Anyway must go as Deborah has made one of
her splendid bacon rolls for brekkie
Guy
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