Libertad Jake's Blog 8thi August 2008 Biscay Crossing
LIBERTAD
Paul Huntley
Fri 8 Aug 2008 08:53
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Bay of Biscay - 46:02.07N 004:44.97W
Morning all,
Since my last full blog, loads has happened as Paul
has been writing and now we have set sail for spain and it is all very exciting!
I just came off my third watch of the night and its
nice and sunny; the sea is still pretty rocky, but not as bad as it was
yesterday. Paul and I checked the weather forecast and they were forecasting
force 6 till about 8 pm with moderate seas, and they were quite wrong.
We ended up with force 6/7 with about 4 metre seas, which was pretty
ridiculous, for the whole day and it only started to quiet down in the
evening. The only thing to make it more enjoyable was a pod of dolphins
came and played for over an hour. I took the first watch which was
8-10 and when I got off my break at 2 the sky was full of
stars and the seas had moderated considerably! I have to say how amazing it is
at sea at night with the smallest amount of light pollution from the boat and
the plankton lighting up the wake of the boat, it really is amazing. The
channel crossing was so miserable that last night really made up for
it.
Tim and I were talking with a guy on the pontoon
yesterday who owns a Hallberg Rassey 48, absolutely amazing boat. He gave
us a tuna lure for the boat as we had expressed our interest in some game
fishing, so we are gonna trail the lure behind the boat today and fingers
crossed we can catch something mammoth. Although we may end up with a rather big
space problem, we will have to see.
Loctudy was a really nice little port to spend
a couple of days in, had a really nice diner the first night. Then Tim, Laura
and I tried our hand at crab and mackerel fishing, which I would say wasn't too
successful due to the fact that all we caught were three sea snails who were
clinging onto our bait.......
We are gonna try again in spain and hopefully we
can be a little more successful. Apparently peeler crabs are great bait for
fishing, so we're gonna have to get on it!
So its 10:50 here french/spanish time, we left
yesterday at 12 and should get to our destination sometime tomorrow, depending
on where we are going we are going to have to see where the weather takes us.
Hope everyone is well
Jake
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