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Ayama - Calmer seas and Swedish language lesson



The sea has calmed down and is less choppy. Winds are also down to 15 knts from the south, boat speed still very good at around 7-8 knots. The crew is getting some well deserved quality sleep.
Spirits are high and yesterday Micke entertained us with nice songs from a ( Toddy Spex) play based on Vilhelm Mobergs epic "Utvandrarna" or the Emigrants in English.(Moberg is world famous in Sweden)
Maybe Micke will have a short performance in Horta when we arrive? They song texts describe life on a ship in the Atlantic. The songs might not entirely reflect V Moberg intentions though...

We get our weather forecasts via ARC over the SSB radio (kortvågsradio). They have been quite accurate so far.

They typically finishes like this:

SKIES CLOUDY. SCATTERED SHWRS/SQUALLS*

* WINDS AND SEAS HIGHER IN SQUALLS

BEST REGARDS, WEATHER ROUTING INC. (WRI)

We have been spared from Squalls with one exception. Anders had one on his graveyard shift two days ago when the rest of us where trying to sleep.
Now, Squall is a difficult word to translate into Swedish -the language we normally use on board Ayama.

It translate to something like this:
"Lokala Regnbyar med vindstyrkor upp till kuling"

This is to long for us, so looking up the word in the Merriam-Webster 2013 dictionary we learn:
"Squall -noun
A sudden violent wind often with rain or snow
Origin: probably of Scandinavian origin akin to Swedish skval / rushing water
First used : 1699 "

There we go! We will send in a suggestion to the Swedish Academy and the Swedish sailing federation to (re)introduce the word Skval into the Swedish language to be used to describe mentioned weather condition.
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