" A LADY TRIP" Sailing around the World, ( presently at sea)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 11 Mar 2010 15:07
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WEDNESDAY 10th MARCH 2010
01.00 hrs We got a message regarding the catamaran
" Destiny" It seemed she sent out an sos by mistake and we were the nearest to
her.
It all
ended with another message to say " false alarm"
We also got a message to look out for some
partially submerged containers on our route, Just bleedin lovely in the
middle of the night.
Cripes, they wouldent half do a lot of damage if we
hit one doing 9 knots, we could even sink.
They estimate that there are 1 million of these
things floating around the oceans,, bloody hell !
We took in a couple of reefs as the wind was piping
up, now at a steady 28knots and we were on a close fetch,
Even at that we were still doing almost 9
knots,
We also had lots of Dolphins and in the black of
night they were something else,
Because of the Phospherous, they looked like
underwater jet streams mixed with WW 2 torpedos diving up and down around the
boat
which was flying along at 9 knots.
We also had lots of showers during the night, and
in the morning we had 15 squids and 6 flying fish on deck,
11.00hrs Skipper and Fats put on the running
backstay , as the sea was building............
We also discover that the emails are no longer
being sent or recieved on board " A Lady"
We ran out of time, even though we started this
trip with 3000 minutes ( and were told by the time by the suppliers we had
enough for 3 years)
If it wasent so serious , it would be almost
funny,
Talk about buying things, reminds the skipper of
buying the steps for the boat, there was a warning that they would only carry a
max weight of 200 Lbs
Chrips, will Fats manage this , God, what weight is
he anyway ?
Later He assured me that he was well within the
limits,! hmmmmmmmmm ???
12.00 hrs Fats gets on the Radio again for the
midday broadcasts to the other boats,
however as we already know, we can only
recieve, Bloody hell , is everything on this lovely boat going to give up
working !
So what if we are out of touch with the rest of the
world for the next two and a half weeks. ( not the end of the
world)
13.oohrs, Aileen did freshly baked bread rolls ,
with banna and cheese for lunch,
15.00hrs Fats tries the radio again with the same
result,
The clouds begin to clear and it might turn out to
be a nice day yet.as the wind eased and the sea had that vivid blue colour
again.
15.30 hrs Aileen and Fats took to the bunks
for their mid afternoon naps, ( no. not together )
18.30hrs Aileen cooked dinner , Spaggetti
Whatever and it was just lovely,
Night Watches
Aileen ............... 22.00hrs to
01.00hrs
Fats....................01,00hrs to
04.00hrs
Skipper...............04.00hrs to 08.hrs
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Signed Stephen Hyde (
skipper)
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