Sailing around the World ( presently at sea )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 7 Sep 2010 23:24
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MONDAY 6th SEPTEMBER
2010
We had a beautifull starrey night again, but
without the moon, the sea was as black, as black could be,
As we said before, it is just so good to lie down
on the aft deck and study the stars through the binoculars.
Skipper and Neil read more of the articles in
last years ICC annual, Some of them are great stories and the accounts of
various
journies are excellent..
04.00hrs 734 miles completed. and 182 left to
go.
We think we are great to do this trip, but thinking
back, the Coveney kids were fantastic to do this journey on " Golden Apple
"
without the assistance of the World ARC or Blue
water rally. That was the year their father " Hugh " died. around
1998.
09.00hrs RADIO CALL eowyn was the
net controller for today. Our position as lead boat has not changed, but the
rest
of the fleet are close behind, only about 30
miles or so seperate us.
13.30hrs The wind died down to 8 kknots, so
we stuck on the engine again , Boy was it hot, hot, It was so hot that one
could not walk on the deck without shoe's. It was
36 degrees below decks.
We motored for 3 hours before the wind reappeared
and we then had a steady 16 /18 knots on our quarter for the rest of the
day and night.
We saw lots of Whales , along with many ships and
trawlers passing as it got dark.
We had a light dinner and as we were less than60
miles from Bali as darkness fell we took our normal turns for night
watch.
There was plenty of lightning as midnight
approached.. How that lights up the sky.
Thats all for today.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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