38:01.241N 27:03.964W
SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Wed 27 Jun 2018 13:38
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UTC & local time -- 1308.
Though it is a lunch time on board, it is
still the morning in Montreal.
The night passed in accordance with the Azores
attitude... One has probably heard, or experienced the
_expression_ ' Islands time... Manana...' Which means -- everything on
the island is extremely slow, etc, etc, etc... I 'm not
going into details, because if you did not experienced that
then you would had no chance to understard it anyway! ;-)
Saying that... Azores are different.
Everything on the island itlself -- officials, shops,
marinas are as efficient as it can onlry be. And fast --
including the shipping from the other islands and mainland, and
friendly...
Everything fast... except sailing itself. The
constant presence around of the Azores High, its appearance and moves
arround, .. ridges.... make the winds nearly constantly on the light
side... or 'no winds at all'... At least during the stable summer
time, as it is now... , time to time the small - or should I
say short? - Lows are influencing that paradise... Probably
just for the purpose to compinsate statistically the 'average wind' over the
season... To the same degree as the average temperature of all patients in the
hospital -- is always normal...
But today -- as expected -- the winds are light, our
progress towards the St. Miguel, Dalgata -- slow but steady... At the
speed we are doing now -- our 70 nm left -- will be probably done by tomorrow
dawn... Which has been kind of expected, and good...
It is amaizing how beautiful the nights here, with
full Moon... nearly flat Ocean, and the light breeze...
What surprised me a bit ... how deeply I get adopted
to beinig on the ocean, and to like it... Much more then being on land, in
harbour... There is nothing wrong beinig in harbour, on land. Especially,
on one which is traveller friendly as Azores.. And nevertheless... A week,
and the internal feeling 'go, go, go...' starts to build
up... I can resist it for a while... but then... anchor up, sails
up... and a passage...
And the constand questionining myself -- 'Why didn't
I left earlier ?! ' .... ;-)
Days provide a plenty of time to read, and to
train yourself in different maters... Today trainng has been -- the
generator carburator cleaning up... The
treat -- a happy generator charging the batteries, I'm typing the
message, the boat is sailing... the lunch will be served shortly ( for the
last one -- all I have to do is to put the cook hat on my head, made the
lunch, and change back to skippe/crew/drifter again... )
The nights... The evenings and nights are providing a
plenty of time to think... Slowly but surelly -- that exercise
becoming as intertaining as late night shows on TV, or favourite
movie, or etc...
So, in short -- we are good. We are on our route and track
to the starting point of the next leg of crossing... The adventure is going
on...
Talk to you soon,
M.
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