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Helen writes - Just before 10 pm we crossed back across the equator,
nearly 3 months to the day that we last crossed heading south from Sri
Lanka. Bryan offered the obligatory bottle of Champagne in celebration,
but at the time had changed course to sail along the equator line to show
the track on the chart plotter. The only downside of this was that we
were fighting against the swell on this new point of sail, and I was
struggling to keep my dinner down, and thought it better to avoid turning
the champagne into a champagne cocktail! Bryan was rather pleased with
himself though for balancing the latitude numbers at 00 degrees 00
minutes, although occasional slipping off the equator meant that we ended
up crossing it about eight times. As I got greener and greener I feebly
asked “how much longer are we going to do this?” to which Bryan replies
...“till we can show it on the blog”. With bile now rising to the back of
my throat I said, “Can’t we just write it up and put the positions in?”.
The retort was abrupt - “No” says Bryan, “that would be cheating”!!!!!
We had set off from Foamullah at 4pm on the 3rd with the intention of
having an overnight sail and arriving at sunrise to enter the new atoll
destination Huvadhoo. We actually made better speed setting out than we
needed and arrived close to the atoll in the wee small hours of the
morning, so hove to (used the sails to keep us in a more or less
stationery position) until the sun rose when we were able to motor into
the atoll with a light breeze and good sunlight.
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