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Crazy Horse - Nov 14



Today we are still looking for some good weather so we can make some good time down to Capetown. We have had the winds right on the nose which means slow going and not a comfortable ride. The wind was blowing so hard and right on our nose with the staysail up that we were actually hove to. We were making about .9 knots at times. Right now the wind is a little off our port bow and we are able to motorsail at about 5-6kts. We are trying to make it to East London before a huge southwesterly comes through with winds up to 50kts. We now know why they call it the wild coast. Australia's sunshine coast has a much happier ring to it.

Someone from CA on a sailboat just called on the radio. He is trying to make it to Capetown too before the big blow. He noticed us taking photos of the whales on our starboard side of the boat. It was a mother humpback and a baby. Matt got some good photos of them with flippers out of the water and one with the baby broaching. But our friend who called on the radio says he is sick of the Indian Ocean too. None of us can wait to get to the Atlantic.

Wild Tigris and Ocean Jasper are still out here with us but we can't see them because of the fog. You would never know it is summertime here. I might have to break out my long fleecy pants. No one is probably feeling sorry for me however!
Matt is frying up some of that good ham right now for breaky. Yes, that is one of those Aussie words for breakfast. Eric gives us a hard time for using the terminology we have learned from folks all over the world. He went on and on in an email giving me a good tease about it. It is funny how people who speak the same English language can use such different words for the same item. Jumper is a word the British and the Australians use for a jacket. Perhaps we should start a English dictionary for these words. Anyway the wind is supposed to turn around from the stern but it isn't doing
that yet. So we will have more wild rides along this wild coast. Wish those weatherpeople would order up some good weather for us.

Perhaps they could teach the Indian Ocean some manners while they are at it.

Rosemary, Bill, and Matt



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