Blog No 5 - Tuesday 18th November

Hi As you might have guessed from the last
blog we were doing somewhat better, from Monday morning to this morning we
logged 162 Nautical miles above our target at last. It will be hard to catch up
the backlog but it is only about 15 hrs. We are heading south-westerly towards
a point off the We have not been idle however boat
cleaning, cloths washing and even showering! So we smell beautiful. Fishing has
not started yet but one fish surrendered. It may look big here (it may not) but it
was at least 3 inches long. The big excitement was an hour ago or so we
saw the fin of a shark swimming around the boat – all talk about swimming
has now gone. Here is a picture showing us sailing under
a poled-out genoa which seems to work well for relaxed down-wind sailing.
Anyway – “The End” for
today. Roger |