Thursday 30th @ 1430UT St Vincent 540 nm and Gib 710 nm
A very quiet overnight was spent motor sailing. In fact the last 30 hrs have
been like this and the seas are very smooth. Its a slow way to progress but
even 5 knots is better than nothing and the latest GRIB suggests better
winds are coming. Barry in DINAH emailed to advise they had winds of up to
35 knots further North but he is having a fast passage back to Cork and
could arrive on Saturday, only 8 days out of Horta.
Today the sun has shone properly again and it has become very warm. We have
noticed a gradual increase in sea temperature again since leaving Horta and
now it is 25 degrees.
Paul went fishing yesterday and caught a plastic bag! When he had a "bite"
I said I could be certain it was not a bike and not a plastic bag, all this
way from shore but it just shows how wrong I was and how much pollution man
must be causing.
We did spot real live turtles yesterday, but not green ones. These were much
smaller and brown, just minding their own business on the surface. None
today so far and no dolphins or whales either. No shipping for that matter.
Noon to noon log was 123 miles, under previous days but enough to keep our
average over 130 per day, which has become our target. South going
Portuguese current is definitely here at about 0.75 knots but really neither
helping nor hindering progress.
I am reading Paul Heiney's "Last Man Across the Atlantic" - his own account
of the 2005 OSTAR and Paul has found the golf game on the laptop. Andy's
culinary exercises fro yesterday evening involved using the remains of the
mince and a lot of experimentation, judged to be unsuccessful by me as the
chef, although Paul was very polite. Lucky he has a frozen lasagne to do
for this evening.
We understand some blogs may have incorrect positions recently but it is
also possible these are the missing ones from the previous weekend, which we
re-posted. Sorry if there is any confusion.
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