Beltana II - Day Five and counting

The sailing has been pretty good with 15-18 knot winds blowing consistently from the NE.  We are tracking still SW, so the wind is on our tail and this has not been the most comfortable with rocking and rolling galore.  We put an extra reef in the main again last night to be conservative, but alas it was a bit dark and I mucked up the reef, then the sail blew onto the lazy jacks too hard and we broke the little pulley on the mast and one side of the sail bag came down with a bang, but after gnashing of teeth we sorted it all out.  During all this Paul was hard at it in the galley and produced a heavenly Rogan Josh with fluffy rice and pappadums too so we were well fed for our efforts.   According to the AIS we seem to be cruising semi in company with Oceana but we don’t get to see them; a very wide expanse of ocean all to ourselves.  Shook a reef out this morning and now goose winging almost on a rhum line for St Lucia with a couple of dolphins playing in our bow wave this morning for a few minutes to keep us company.

This morning was dolphin day – first we had a small pod of two or four medium sized dolphins playing in the bow, but half an hour later we had a huge pod of beautiful little small dolphins there must have been over one hunderd playing with us and showing off and a number of them lept right out of the water and showed their pink bellies. Ella you might tell me what sort of dolphin they are – small, grey on top, with leopard patterns on the side and either a pink belly or a whit belly.

 

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