Day 25 - The Middle of Nowhere
Nenne
Sun 26 Nov 2017 16:01
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18:29.721N 042:38.258W
We are now, as near as dammit, halfway between Mindelo
and St Maarten. 1100 odd Nm to go and 1100Nm done. Of the total trip we have now
travelled 3622 nautical miles since leaving La Rochelle 23 years, sorry that
should be 23 days ago.
Officially that means that we are definitely in the
middle of nowhere.
Book reading, as you may have gathered from our last few
posts, has become the number one activity on the boat. After sleeping that is.
While I am still deeply buried in book 4 of Conn Iggulden's Emperor Series, a
collection of 5 novels depicting the life of Julius Caesar, Duncan and Alan are
well into Ken Follett's new book, A Column of Fire, which is the third in the
Pillars Of The Earth trilogy. All very heavy stuff.
Al has downloaded the audio book and is listening to it
on his iPad through earphones. At times we are not sure if he is sleeping or
lost in concentration. There have certainly been times where he has rewound and
repeated a chapter but those may have been to clarify a point rather than
because he lost his place.
Today dawned with us surrounded by isolated squalls
dotted around the horizon and a very good chance of rain. In fact, we have just
been treated to a short shower. This will make Richard happy as the fresh water
will wash the accumulated salt off the boat and he will not need to do it
manually.
And that is about that. We are plodding along in our
routines and looking forward to seeing land, possible around
Saturday.
To those who ran the RAC Tough One, we hope you had a
good run and enjoyed the day.
Love and regards to all who are not in the Middle of
Nowhere
Jeremy
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