At first light we find two unfortuneate flying fish who flew too high,lying on the deck. Thoughts were ” into the breakfast frying pan”, but at present we are spoiled with other menus. Our sincere regrets to sailboat GEISHA that was dismasted. They are sailing slowly with resurrected Aluminium parts back up to the [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
Finally fish.Well, hardly. Day broke with 2 forlorn flying fish on our deck. Are they a flock once they are airborn or still a school? Anyhow, they were good sign. We caught a fine mackrel like fish mid afternoon that BBQ’d perfectly. Bones in picture.. Today marked a major milestone in [...]
Today was our best day for distance. The wind came up and we have been “sledding” along at between 10 and 12 knots. As the wind increases we reduce sail area for safety; so we rolled in our large gennaker and unfurled a smaller genoa. Unfortunately the lines to the gennaker became fouled and [...]
4th Day
Nov 27th, 2008 at 16:55 UTC
Mariners of the sailing ship era would leave Europe and head South to find the East to West Trade winds, that blow consistently above the equator. At some Latitude South they would find the Trade winds and turn West, which is usually around the Cape Verde Islands. Adding to this are also East to [...]
3rd Day
Nov 26th, 2008 at 16:27 UTC
The pic is credited to John, caught last night. Many thanks for your inputs of our position. Confessions, we motored for most of the night, using one engine…3 knots of breeze. As I write it is 4:00PM in the aft and again after a lively breeze this AM we are back to 9 [...]