Skippers Observations
Suzie Too - Western Caribbean
David & Suzanne Chappell
Sat 3 Oct 2009 17:11
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I noticed from the MaxSea C-Map charts there are
some huge mountains out here - one which we will go 40M south of is called Monte
Gettysburg and rises from the sea bed more than 5,000m below to within 20m of
the surface - that's a pretty big Alp sized mountain - well actually bigger!
Interestingly enough my Raymarine Navionics chart has no detail 100M off shore -
just a dotted background until I get near Madeira - disappointing, I
wouldn't want to go anywhere near that in rough weather, it must have some
effect on the sea state.
Well the moon almost lasted till dawn - very
nice, but sun up wasn't utill 07:30 and it sets at 19:15 so days are much
shorter, had to rely on the dawn star for a bit of company. I noticed back in
Portugal as I sat waiting for the bloody MasterVolt all the birds flying
south and thought - "No wait for me - I want to come" - You could really feel
the season changing and I felt we needed to go - time to leave
Europe.
Read a UK paper today and it says the Government
are really looking after you well - providing good education, excellent
policing, cleaning up yobbish behaviour, protecting your children, looking after
your pensions and investments, allowing plenty of unskilled immigration, going
to leave garbage in the streets to save money, making more regulations for you
to contravene so they can fine you, thinking up new taxes, looking after your
health and caring for you with honesty and integrity in your old age. It
says you guys are so lucky, cos if it wasn't for them you would all be
dead, either from terrorist attack or swine flu. Then I see apparently
the Irish have some mad scheme to make Tony Blair, Emperor of Europe - I
think others have tried before and it has always ended in tears.
Sorry no piccies in these blogs as we upload them
over Iridium and use plain text to keep the file sizes small
Well fishing started a bit late today, Pink Watch
was not up on deck early this morning - apparently she had been out very
late somewhere last night - clearly questions need to be asked by Blue Watch
Team Leader !Best Regards
David & Suzanne Chappell
Moody 49 "Suzie Too"
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