Photos from the trip
Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Tue 1 Mar 2011 00:24
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Tuesday 1st March
  Our first night with the oil
field
   Practicing closing
up.......the back row boats were catching up quickly
  A Pakistani Plane flies
over and a fighter jet
  Green water, full of
algae.............A dead flying fish that we found in the cupboard
  Motor-sailing..........A wave
from Mark
  Dolphins at the
bow
  Skiffs racing towards the
boats....we start to panic....but they were heading out to sea to
fish!
  Starting to relax so we fish
and catch a...Mahi Mahi.......and, a tuna for the Tippys
  Miss Tippy picked up the buoy
with the tuna attached
  The Vasco de Gama Rally sailing
as a large group...Charlie in charge of Miss Tippy
  4 boats on the back row when
Jacabel joined......Island Kea and Sol Maria on the front line alongside
us
 2 targets up ahead on the
radar. The one to port is a tanker, we can tell by the size, but the one 6 miles
ahead was very small and cause for concern
 Pirate attacks in January
dotted on the chart and our 1600 mile trip from Cochin
  Closer inspection
Sometimes the attacks were
too close for comfort. The closest was 28 miles from our route.We altered
our course because the attacks were on our path, instead we passed them by
10 miles
These attacks are from January
and February, we don't have all the attacks on screen but you can get the
picture. There were even more along the coast of India, further south and in the
Gulf of Aden. This is serious!
  Arriving at
Salalah
    A warship heading out to
sea
 Safely moored up in
port
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