" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the World and avoiding the Mess at home ( presently sailing between Marquises and Tuamotu's)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 11 Apr 2010 02:14
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SATURDAY 10th APRIL
2010 Today, Munster v
Northampton,.........In Thomond Park . Limerick.
The night at Sea, Very cloudy and lots of showers.
some very heavy.
Watches, 21.00 / 01.00
Donal
01.00 / 05.00 Stephen
05.00 / 09.00 Aileen
Looking at the radar and watching all the clouds
building and tracking them to see if they are going to piddle down on
us is facinating, Its like looking down on
top of the world with all the yellow patches moving slowly across the
screen.
Then there is ,or is not a mad rush to shut all the
hatches and windows, depending.
07.30 hrs ( our time locally, 11 hours behind
Ireland ) We get at half time that Munster are trailing Northampton
, 13 / 16. Ohhhh Noooo
08.30hrs ( our time )
............................................We get a call to say that Munster
defeated Northampton , 33 / 19
Ohhhh thats better,
The wind begins to build and the sun pushes all
those nasty clouds off to some other planet, and all in all, things are looking
up big time.
We have only 150 miles to go.
The wind is blowing 20 knots and we are sailing
merrily along in relativly flat conditions at 8 knots...... No more engine for a
while.
Its funny thing, when we were sailing last year (
July ) from Bayona in Spain to the Azores, A distance of 802 miles and 5 nights
at sea,
Dermod Lovett said " this is the first time I
have been at sea for 5 consecutive nights " and it turned out that the
whole crew
were in the same boat. ( excepy Ann Lyons, who had
completed a 10 night journey previously) and we are all experienced
sailors...
Now we think 3 nights or 5 nights at sea is a short
hop . How things can change..
The skipper is still reading the I C C annual . and
was interested in Edi Keatings account of their cruise with Len and Mary
Curtin
in the Ionian Islands last year, and how short hops
are the thing,, The skipper was always of that mind too, nothing like going
ashore
at night for a meal, or just a few pints, and
sailing by day.. yes yes.
But cruising around the world is equally
facinating, and the meals and pints ashore after 3, 5, 10 , or 16 days at sea
taste
much, much better, Plus most of the Islands do not
speak english either and sign language becomes a very important means
of
communication.
One of the draw backs of the pacific, and most
likely the only crib, is most harbours have swells , so anchoring in flat water
( so far )
is something we are not getting, not withstanding
that, the next places are Atoll's , and should be calm,, great for
swimming.
even if it is with sharks.
18.00hrs, Fat's is doing the dinner, The
skipper's Chicken pie and more veg and gravey, yum,
yum.
An early night and hpoefully have land fall
tomorrow morning early.
It gets bright here around 04.45 hrs and
sudden dusk at 18.00hrs
Thats it for now,
signed: Stephen Hyde ( skipper
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