A few days since our last blog. There are 3 reasons for this:
a. wind-up to 42 knots
b. waves up to 5 meters or so and
c. rain, mainly from squalls that rush in, dump half a ton of water on your head and then disappear!
Blue water sailing huh - we're still in full oilies at night. So whilst these conditions have prevailed balancing a laptop whilst gripping the sat phone between your teeth trying to get a signal has been, to say the least, a little tricky.
However, bit better now so here we go with a quick update of the highlights:
Friday 30th Nov - our 25th wedding anniversary. A huge pod of dolphins arrived and gave us a spectacular acrobatic display. These were the first dolphins of the trip and we haven't seen them since. Now as the same thing happened on my 60th birthday in July I wonder have we subscribed to Dolphins r us? Strange!
Saturday 1st December - a big boat called Shan Huang made a fairly good attempt at sailing over us despite our radio calls, lights and evasive tactics. After we avoided them we managed to establish radio contact. Scott in true British fashion took them to task for ignoring Colision Regs and informed the captain that he would be reported to the maritime authorities. Just before radio contact was broken I'm sure we heard giggling from the other end!
Sunday 2nd Dec - attack of the flying fish! No. 1 just missed me, No 2 hit Scott in the face and No. 3 died in the cockpit!.
Since then the weather has calmed a bit and we had a very peaceful night last night with good winds today. Up date on the breakages list - one lost sock - overboard and my emergency seasick watch is sick - good job I'm not suffering!
Thanks to everyone for their txts and luv to all. Scott and Julia "Katerina"