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Bermuda to the Azores - 2nd May Carl-Anton, called
“Anton” onboard as we already have a Carl, joined the crew in Bermuda. Anton is from Aland the island between
Sweden and Finland and speaks Swedish.
Anya from the USA also joined the crew whilst in Bermuda.
We spend the past 3 days
in Captain Smokes Marina in St Georges Harbor. Captain smokes is a very small family
run marina business and provided affordable mooring. Bermuda is beautiful with its picture
card pastel colored houses, bays and stunning landscape the locals are very
friendly and polite. However it is expensive; $6 for a beer, $6 for an ordinary
pre-packed loaf of bread we spent $28 on a piece of cheese.
We are settling into life
on board, it always takes a couple of days for the new crew to get their sea
legs and adapt to the way Siri Ros is managed. Each crew is briefed on general as well
as safety issues before we leave and the MOB (Man Over Board) drill is a must
before we head out to sea.
Last night was rough with
high wind (up to 30kn) and waves, we sailed fully reefed (3 reefs). The motion and rolling of the boat made
this first night at sea not very pleasant for any of us however we did make good
progress; 160 miles. We have identified the
very peculiar looking floating objects that we originally thought were discarded
plastic bottles, as Portuguese Man of War a jelly fish. We are not going to try
to catch any of them. All crew are safe and a
few are feeling the effects of the sea. Liz – skipper Siri
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