Heading North!
Rhiann Marie - Round the World
Stewart Graham
Tue 19 Jul 2011 16:51
Tuesday 19th July 1757 Local 1557
UTC
34:52.719S 019:46.090E
At 1636 today we "rounded" Cape Agulhas. This cape
is the most southerly point of the African continent, not its more famous
neighbour Cape of Good Hope, which we hope to round before dawn
tomorrow.
We rounded on latitude 34:53.207S and Longditude
020 degrees East of Greenwich. We continued West on this latitude actually
heading directly for the Rio de la Plata and Montevideo in Uraguay but just
after an hour we got fed up of that idea and at 1746 we turned to starboard in a
northwesterly direction towards Capetown.
This point is the most southerly point on our
13,000 mile detour to avoid Somalian pirates and the start of our (my) long
six or seven thousand nautical mile road north and home.
Speaking of Somalia I see that David
Cameron pledged £50Million of our money yesterday to Somalia. Oh really?
Now I hope he pledged British farm produced food, not cash, directly
to those that are starving. Which if sent in food not cash aid could be reduced
to £25Million for example, and spend £25Million on a mission to eradicate
and arrest the bank accounts and assets of those that are perpetrating the
piracy there and release the 650 hostages they hold. Then there will be plenty
money to spend on food which can make up the balance of the
pledge? Charity begins at home Mr Cameron not in failed lawless states in
Africa.
On a lighter note I celebrated rounding the Cape
and the most southerly point of our circumnavigation ( because Trish refused to
swim over the line in 16 deg C Great White infested waters) by
.................................................... stripping off naked while
helming across the line and having a stiff Macallan whisky, stiff nips all round
you might say, and drinking a toast to all those that have helped us on this
adventure and to celebrate heading north for home.
Don't let the blue skies in the photo fool you
- it was freezing. You will see how Trish was dressed in one of the images
- four layers, scarf, hat etc etc. while I suffered the cold in
my birthday suit. There are another couple of images there too the sunset on
Trisj's round the world sailing and a goodbye kiss as this is her last night at
sea.
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