Weather & Food
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Sun 21 Sep 2008 04:45
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17:57.61S
168:43.16W
A day of squalls and sail changes.
It's been another busy morning with changeable
winds and squalls passing through. Luckily, unlike sailing in the UK,
they are short lived so we are not having to suffer being in the rain for
too long in fact it's quite refreshing. However the winds that have been
wafting us along for the past week have now abandoned us. Our ugrib
forecast is now predicting wind more to the front of us instead of the following
wind we have been enjoying. Thus we have now wrapped up our down wind rig
and prepared the more conventional cutter rig for the remaining 3/4 days to
Tonga. Funnily enough as I write this it has gone flat calm not a ripple,
quite a Pacific ocean. Anyway enough of the weather, I'm sure that
you have all got enough of your own.
I am chef today, (yes Ann I am going to go on about
food again) so I'm planning a roast chicken dinner it being Sunday and
all. Unfortunately there'll be no roasties as Ruth finished the last of our
spuds in her cornbeef hash last night, and I don't think smash would roast
very well. We are still fishless, we're not even been getting any
bites, at least it saves us loosing tackle. I was going to add that we
have seen very little sign of fish, but that also has all changed as I
write. We are surrounded with Tuna fish feeding on something, they are
jumping all around us, however redoubled efforts on us anglers part has not
caused any to take our lures. It looks like we are going to have
to reassess our approach to catching fish! Perhaps we could tow
Chris behind with his speargun. One last thing that hasn't changed as I
write is that we have not sighted a ship or boat in the last week at sea, but we
have spotted some rubbish floating in the water today, so perhaps there is
someone just over the horizon. A question before I head off to get stuck
into my chefly duties. What is this Veg. locker thing with Chris
about? Does it have anything to do with darch being an anagram of a
vegetable?
Capt. Black Ribs and his Motley Crue.
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