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George - Has anyone seen the trade winds?



'Public Apology' yesterdays log was sent in error. I have tried to explain to Mason that if you press 'send' it will, at the next opportunity. We also had a panic over sailmail cutting us off for over usage... but that's another story..

Disaster Murder Help! This morning we found the butter had melted.... then we found the fridge wasn't cooling. On further investigation I deduced it was actually broken! 7 days out of the canaries! So today we are declaring 'World Eating Day' in order to remember all those people who eat to much, which will end in a night of festivity's including an eating competition. It's not all bad we had a crisis meeting to discuss our options. Jim suggested Man Tuna? we didn't ask... I think he is still a bit bitter from being grassed up over 'Log gate' but yes we can catch some fish the problem is we can't start fishing till we run out of meat?! TB

Thank goodness for our very alert peak of his game Michael 'the watchman', after two days of not seeing another boat, his experience spotted two vessels over two shifts. To be fair the first vessel was harder to see than the second. After all it was a 50 meter fishing vessel at night lit up like a Christmas tree. The second was in daylight and was a super tanker well over 400 meters in length. But he managed to avoid them both with a well timed tack. The second vessel was so close that one of the crewmen, sorry, crewpeople, managed to toss something into the boat. 'Its the missing twenty pence piece' exclaimed Poirot as he noticed the strange sticky substance on one side of the coin. 'where did that come from' cried Mason.........'George' bravely fought through high winds and swells to carry his crew to sanity. JDR

Wet, wet, wet. Pretty much all there is to say as we run down the edge of an Atlantic low tonight, reefed down to two tiny wet wipes. Not sure this is quite how I had the downwind Milk Run to the Caribbean sold to me. Oh well at least the rain's warm (ish) and the toilet's still operational. SCN

Firstly apologies for "sending" yesterdays blog prematurely, and secondly for Captain Tim's Prof. Brian Cox - like outburst regarding the phosphorescence. Let's move on, 'cos I've got to go and eat something soon. We have this morning seen the sun for the first time in two days. We have gone through two days of horrid, squally and very wet and windy weather. Chay Blyth would probably call me a jesse but I didn't find it particularly pleasant with lightening strikes what seemed lie a few hundred yards from the boat during the night. Tim's boat "George" has coped with everything thrown at it very well. Being a Piscean, I'm not superstitious, so I hope I'm not tempting fate by saying the boat is doing a great job! A two star and moon sight this morning should give us a nice fix, probably not the type we would all like tho. Captain Tim has sausage sandwiches on the go, now that's the fix we're talking about... MK 18N 27W

Turned west in the sun a good feeling. I even found a second fishing vessel this morning three other crew members came on deck to watch my tactics. He even tried motoring towards us when I managed to swerve around his fishing line buoy. I think he thought we were going to lift it. Mason called the Spanish fishing vessel up on the radio to warn him I was on watch!!! Success, I missed him. I was hoping to get a couple of fish for him to show the crew what I caught on my watch. That tactic was foiled by the crew watching my skills. His English on the radio was not good and my spanish is nil. So it probably wasn't going to happen. Hopefully more success with the next one. The fridge may have packed up so we have to eat ten days meat in two days. Then we get to the luxury items - baked beans and Ambrosia creame rice mmmm.. MN Somewhere in the Atlantic

Poirot had decided to convene the crew to up date them on his 'log gate' investigation. but one person was missing. Which was strange as it was 2am and the start of his watch. a man was despatched to find him. A cabin door was opened, 'Tim, morning', 'morning' came the reply. Five minutes later and nothing except the sound of an electrical sanding belt came from within. Cabin door opened again, 'Tim', 'yes mmm' came the reply. Ten past, still nothing except the same strange noise. 'TIMOTHY' five minutes later a very bleary eye Hastings appeared with a bemused look on his face which said 'who am I, where am I and what are all these people doing in my bedroom'. The only person who knew what he was doing was 'George' on his relentless quest to deliver his cargo. And the watchman and I could eventually retire......JDR


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