Daily Life
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Thu 5 Jul 2007 07:07
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Position 45 23' N 15
48' W About halfway between Bordeaux and La Rochelle on the French coast
and 600 miles west
Actually on working out our
position I was amazed to find that we are closer to Plymouth than the French
coast! Geography is a funny old thing. Many people have asked what do you do all
day aboard a yacht when sailing? To give some idea I will list what we did
yesterday:
Radio schedule ( Chatting
with other yachts re weather etc.)
Breakfast
Hoisted
Spinnaker
A lesson in Radar operation
(We saw a ship approaching)
Made a curry
A second radio schedule (
With someone who should have been in harbour)
Lunch
Catch,clean and fillet a
6Kg Tuna
Clean the boat (after the
above)
Tea &
biscuits
Bake bread
Lower
spinnaker
Sort out and hoist sails
for the nightwatch
Evening radio
schedule
Have supper (Tuna, the
curry was cancelled!)
Bed
Of course we were still
looking out for Ships(2), dolphins(Many), whales(A pod) and any other
interesting things that pass you by. I only managed a couple of pages of my book
yesterday so I'm looking foreward to getting into Plymouth in order to have a
holiday.
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