thursday

Yacht Ariel
Henry Adams
Thu 24 Jul 2008 12:06
position: 41:20.2N, 23:00.6W
making good progress i think. finally I've seen my
whales! not what I was really after (a gargantuan monster up close) but saw a
couple of small whales jumping right into the air about half a mile away
yesterday. back into the swing of feeling slightlu nauseous, watchingthe radar
detector, and spending a hugely disproportionate amount of time in bed.
Finished reading 'the master and margerita', now on to a Dennett book i
never got round to for my dissertation
haven't checked the next few days' worth of weather
yet, so hope i'm not in for a battering - i know there was a system with 45
knots further north, but it wasn't due to head this way last time i
checked...
two breakages last night; the whisker pole and the
kicking strap (for about the 4th time)
ah! got to go, caught a fish
me again (who else). fish got away. definitely a
big one though - i had the rubber gloves on fighting it in for a
time...
tale of excitement for today (apart from the fish)
has been a rescue i nearly had to perform on a drifting mariner. i sat down to
write up the log when i fancied i could hear a whistle outside, so, leaping up i
scanned the waves in vain! then it came again, so i looked about madly like the
chap in Jaws on his ownsome out at sea until i realised it was the biro lid in
my mouth making the noise...
above breakages fixed, onwards with the
journey!
H
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