Day 154 - Caribbean Passage - Day 28
We made it 17:00.98N
61:46.40W – Tuesday 23rd of December, 2008 at 5PM. Engine Time – 0
Hours Well, today is the last
day at sea for a week or so and we are both pretty excited, Fi more than
anything. At the moment I do not know how to feel, I honestly could stay out
for another month in this if I had the beer. Food is certainly no problem also
we have now run out of onions which is pretty serious. To be honest we have
eaten very little of what we provisioned this is partly due to our appetites
shrinking which is normal for sailors doing such a crossing it is also to do
with the amount of fish we have eaten. Even now as I type I have my line out
the back in the hope I catch another monster that can feed us and our friend
for the next week. Well, what do you know
the line went crazy about 3 hrs from land, perfect timing, fish fish fish.
Cleaning this sucker at Sea was not easy in the huge swell we had on the way in
and to top it off each time a squall came through it was gale force. Special
comments by Fiona: I woke this morning after my last
watch at 7:30am and felt incredibly excited, like a kid on Christmas eve.
As I type we are 41 miles from I will keep busy today
by cleaning the interior of the boat so that when we do drop anchor, the boat
is at least clean and not the mess it’s been in for the past 20 days.
I’m yet to spot land though but when I do I’m sure it will seem
ages until we finally reach it! Please note that this
update is via a very slow satellite link. As soon as I am not restricted by
bandwidth I will update the entry to include the picture’s Day 154 Traveling Direction
– West Wind Direction –
North North East – Strong Swell – Big Average Speed
– 5.8 Top Speed – ? Distance Covered –
102 Nautical Miles |