26:08.720N 26:35.945W
Whisper
Noel Dilly
Mon 12 Nov 2012 12:57
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"Day 5 At Sea - 12th November"
We are steadily progressing in the right direction
averaging 125 miles in 24 hours. The wind is behind us and the sails are
goose winged, this makes a rolling motion, sometimes gentle, sometimes violent
and usually just when you want to pour the tea into the cup or any other
activity requiring a stable base. The contents of the cupboards have been
sufficiently shaken up that retrieving something from them and returning it is
quite an art.
The night skies are quiet exceptional, the sky
completely filled with bright stars and planets. Last night it reminded me
of a time when we were sitting in a cave deep down in a crevasse in New
Zealand. We had entered the inky black cave and sat on some rocks, as
we waited the cave was slowly illuminated by hundreds upon hundreds of
glow worms, it was quite a spectacular sight. As we raced through the dark
last night we were chased by small black clouds, which eventually caught us
up, obliterating the heavens above for a short while, dampening the decks
and then teasingly showing small clusters of stars until the cloud had past by
and the sky was once more studded with stars again.
The seas vary immensely, we have not yet reached a
point of long wide rollers, they are quite short and from varying directions,
the helm often gets a surprise shower much to the amusement of the rest of us
warm and dry below. Whisper is behaving well under the conditions, gently
picking up her skirts and letting the wave roll underneath her before scurrying
off down the otherside of it. It is quite amazing to see these huge waves coming
up behind our stern and then to see the deep drop below into the trough as the
wave rolls under us. Our other friend Windy Bill is also behaving well and
working hard at keeping us on course despite the influence of the seas
constantly trying to push Whisper off course.
So far so good!
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