Is there anyone out there?
ULA
John & Jackie Richards
Tue 7 Oct 2008 14:38
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Position:033:09.505N 011:00.683W
We are now approximately 48 hours in to our
trip and have around 255 miles to go to our waypoint some 10 miles
north of Lanzarote. The weather is gorgeous and we are now creaming
along with the spinnaker up steering 210degrees magnetic and
averaging between 6 and 7 knots in a northerly breeze of around 10.8 knots
some 80 miles off the West African coast. The crew is well settled in to
the watch routine now and all are in good spirits - we seem to have a
continual stream of banter and mickey taking as ever!
John. Andrew and I were on the 4am to 8am watch
this morning and experienced a beautiful daybreak - hopefully I will be
uploading photos later.
Is there anyone else out there we ask? In the last
24hours we have seen only three commercial ships, including one cruise liner,
and around 11pm last night we picked up the lights of what appeared to
be another yacht some 3 miles west of us on a gradually converging course
but we appeared to have moved ahead and by the time our watch was back on
at 4am and could no longer see him.
John is currently playing with our watermaker and
impressing the rest of the crew with the water quality we seem to be getting at
the moment!
A few awards for the crew today:
Andrew: Personal Hygiene Award for taking his first
shower afloat (ever!?)
Helen: Clean Decks Award for missing the decks
while feeling a bit unwell during her night watch
Tim: Ula Greasy Spoon Award and Multi-tasking Award
for making himself a full fry up English breakfast this morning while skippering
the watch and hoisting the spinnaker
John: Water Maker Award for keeping us all in water
following Andrew's shower!!!!
Jackie
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