Daily run of 120NM not too bad under the circumstances.

 

Yesterday evening and into the night the wind just kept on increasing up to over 30knts. Which was a bit unnerving as the weather files that we had downloaded suggested it would have dropped.

Still Magnum did her usual job of looking after us whist surfing the massive walls of water that roared out of the dark from behind us. I have heard it said that it is a brave man that looks backwards in these conditions as the waves tower above the boat lifting us up, passing underneath and then throwing our 10ton boat down the front at surfing speeds. Luckily for us it was dark so I didnt have to prove my bravery!

 

The nights are very very dark and long this time of year, moon has barely showed abouve the horizon most nights, the stars are “amazing” (copy right Brian Cox)

Interesting phenomenon last night we I could see lights under the water about 200m from us, I thought I had imagined it but then we passed some more closer to us. Turns out they are Jellies about 35cm diameter that light themselves from within, very odd as they looked just like uplighters in a posh swimming pool  

 

Time is passing pretty slowly on-board, but all is good. We have watched a few DVD,s and read some books, I an currently reading Mysterious Island by Jules Vern, a very clever chap who had many ideas ahead of his time, Amanda has finished The legacy and is now onto The Kills.

I have always been a “reader” so its great to have some guilt free down time to catch up on my reading.   We read so much between us that we should probably offered our services as proof readers or book critics before we left home.

 

Position 22:47.40N 20:55.99W