We were ghosting along at 0-3 knots boat speed last night and suddenly heard a whale blow super close. What followed was about 90 minutes of at least two, maybe more whales, probably around half Rush size swimming along with us, as close as 3m at times just keeping us company. They were close enough that when one blew we felt the spray and smelt the fishy breath! Amazing, just amazing. They were grey with a small fin, perhaps a right whale of some sort, hard to tell, it was dark and we don’t have a book onboard.
In other news it’s snigglefest, day 4. We do feel like we are slowly wriggling from the grasp as we’ve had 4-7 knots of wind fairly constantly for a couple of hours and we expect a little bit more into this evening. Be interesting to see if it’s just us that got stuck this hard in the ridge once we exchange our war stories the other side. Super proud of the resolve and patience of the crew, especially the little ones, that have stuck it out determined to sail the whole way.
Had the last of the tuna for lunch today, we got 4 square meals out of it, we are now ready to catch a fish. So far the new pink and white feathers haven’t produced but the haven’t had the best chance being dragged along virtually stationary. The cut off is midday tomorrow and we will go back to trusty old pink/white/blue squid, never fails!
Christmas decoration making in full force down below today. We’ve got paper snowflakes underway to add to the green and red strings of wool pom-poms already made. Going to be quite the winter wonderland when we decorate in St Lucia and put up the tree.
Louis and Summer have had a few games of chess today, always results in some healthy sibling banter ;-) Louis and Nia have also been updating our midday positions on the passage chart for the kitchen wall!
Going to pull rank and get one of the other sailors to blog tomorrow, maybe we’ll even be sailing properly by then!
Rush Out
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