Blog 25th May
Nightsong
Tue 25 May 2010 14:30
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Dear Blog
Noon position 36.25N 49.35W -- only 88 miles dome
from noon yesterday but we were absolutely becalmed for 10 hours, drifting at
about a 1 knot.
Now we are cracking along again with a Force
4 wind behind us and the large gennaker up and doing 6.5 knots roughly in
the right direction. Wind is due to increase by tomorrow morning and by Friday
morning we will have a SW.gale which will be fun. Still hope to be in by Monday
evening but with the fickleness of the weather, no engine and still with 1000
miles to go, nobody knows. We have only done 800 miles in just over 6
days.
The sea life has been fantastic - by far the best I
have ever seen. We get visits by dolphins at least twice a day - pic shows a
rare successful still photo of striped dolphins - the pod must have
numbered 50 or more. Nick had a swim in mid ocean about 2000 hrs last night and
managed not to get eaten - David had been regaling us with a story about the
last person he knew who did that and never came back, which cheered him!
Unusually AJB funked it 'cos it was cold and nearly dark but will if another
opportunity arises despite the water temp. Simon finally agreed to take Stugeron
and is fine.
 Apart from 1 steamer , we have not seen any other
boats for 2 days now. The Atlantic is a big ocean to lose 25 boats that started
from Bermuda about the same time as us. Thinking
of John and Sue Clarke (crew for Madeira 9 months ago) also in the Atlantic but
southern Atlantic and sailing from South Georgia to Uruguay - Tristan da Cunha
apparently has been cancelled
AJB 25th May 2010
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