Three
days three blogs whatever next?
The
night was good sailing contributing to a 24 hour run of 139 nm. Sitting alone in
the cockpit in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean at night lets you think about so
many things which perhaps you dont have time for in your normal daily life. As
I write this having past the half point we are now counting the miles down,
currently 1170 nm to run to the northern tip of St Lucia.
The
day starts with a glorious sunrise and by 0915 we were putting sun cream on, it
was feeling tropical and with sea temperatures of 29.2 deg C. About midday some
900 nm west of the Cape Verdes we passed within 2 nm what looked like a modern
fishing boat with no sign of life onboard nor tackle to handle nets or lines,
quite mysterious. Talking about fishing prompted discussion about what to have
for lunch No sooner said than done Richard maintained his 100% record when he
deployed his lure and reeled his third Mahi Mahi of the trip so far Lunch was
served!!
Flying
fish again amuse us with their antics and we continue to sight the very
occasional storm petrel.
More
mundane matters always need to be attended to, so sleeves rolled up I clean the
head, with all credit to the crew for keeping it clean and tidy, then time to
clear the two inline shower tray pump filters before removing the grating and
washing the bedding, towels, tea towels, smalls etc in the shower tray. Drying
them is not a problem hung on the guard rails and boom dressing ship overall
is not normally done this way. In case I failed to mention this yesterday I got
the electric hoover out and did some more house work, I guess it helps to make
up for my lack of creative cuisine which is simply outclassed by Simon and
Richard.
Sextant
work keeps Simon largely out of mischief as he works through his sight reduction
tables all very complicated but the more so the better as far as Simon is
concerned.
We
are now starting to calculate distance to run, days run through the water and
the days run after accounting for the help we get from the equatorial current
and naturally our eta in Rodney Bay St Lucia.
Anyway
for now we continue to enjoy the adventure and the
journey.
David