Update in english
Shiraz Atlantic Voyage 2009
Tomas Bartosz
Wed 13 May 2009 20:51
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Hello everyone ! :-)
Today it´s the eleventh day at sea and all is
well.
We´re having a great time aboard and sailing is easy as it
is rigth now !
All in the crew feels well and have got their sealegs by
now.
We made contact with a boat just some 80 nautical miles
south of us. It is an english boat with two guys aboard. We said to have a beer
together on arrival in Horta /Azores. :-)
We shall see who get´s there first, haha !
Strangest thing that is really. As soon as a sailor spots
another sailboat it´s a RACE !
No matter where you are or the circumstances.
But fun! :-)
Today at 10.20 am we passed 2000 NM sailed. we´ve had an
average of 7,63 total and the last 24 hours we sailed 199 NM (1 NM = 1852 meters
or 1,15 mile )
Not bad for such an old lady ! :-D
Still we have about 850NM to the Azores.
So right now we are pretty far from nearest land !
:-o
But as I said before, all is well aboard and the
boat pretty much handels it self on the autopilot and we just ride with
it.
Smooth sailing it is so far.
We have a reasonably good check up on the weather every
day thruogh the satelite phone wich makes us able to do this web diary and also
download weather predictions for our area and ahead.
really good system and extremly usefull to us when it
comes to planning and plotting the best course for our trip.
Right now we have a high building up in front of us during
the next day or two. That is why we now changed our course 10 degrees to the
north to try to catch the last of the prevaling southwesterly
winds.
That way we are optimizing the speed to Horta even though
it may not look that way on the map.
Acording to our track on the map it seems we are
aiming to much to the south. But that was to avoid the lows further up
north last week.
It´s really fun with sail tactics over such a vast area as
this, the second largest ocean, is !
Food is exellent on this trip and today we had freshly
baked chocholate muffins to our morning coffe!
Yummie!
A day aboard passes swifthly and days merge into eachother
to a very pleasent feeling inside.
We all feel very content about beeing right here, right
now.
It is a great feeling.
I truely hope that you all get the opportunity to feel the
same way sometime, with whatever it is that you might like to do.
For us it is sailing.
Take care of eachother !
Yours sincearly
Capt. Tomas
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