The weather in Mauritania... scorchio!
Tillymint.fortescue
Sat 19 Sep 2009 19:22
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Ahoy there me hearties! Shiver me timbers and damn
me for a blind bo'sun's mate! And other piratical nonsense.
Just time for a quick update before we start
dealing cards. Mauritania was lovely. Unexpected, but lovely. Sadly the camera
jammed at the crucial moment, otherwise you would have been able to enjoy a
photo of Tilly Mint bobbing gently at anchor in a desert oasis, fringed with
palms and thirsty camels.
With the technical error rectified, we were
speedily transported back to patch of deep blue sea approximately miles from
anywhere. As night falls, our horizon shrinks until, far from feeling like lords
of all we survey (to whit: waves), we are wrapped in a coccoon of light from our
instruments, scudding furtively along with no idea whether pods of curious
whales and unidentified monsters of the deep quietly observe from the nearby
dark.
The wind has done a smart 180-degree handbrake turn
and we're now on a very nice reach. We maxed out at 10-point-something a moment
ago and are even now buzzing along at a lively 8 knots. Skipper
looks exceeding chuffed indeed.
Wait until he sees the four aces in my
hand...
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