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Monomotapa - 1 December




Monomotapa 1 December

Starship Enterprise. Captain's log star date 01122014:123613.10: I am pleased to report that the suspected attack to the crew of the vessel by the Klingons was totally exaggerated and unfounded. However we are still awaiting the latest reports on another one of the other high performance racing vessels, the Open 60 with their freeze dried rations and considerably inferior diet???

Yesterday we had another set back when our second genaker was damaged beyond repair. As always we were pushing the boat for maximum speed. One other factor could have been that we had just received the position report for all vessels and we were disappointed to see that we had moved down the rankings in the last 48 hours.

We are finally into the true trade winds with the wind directly behind us from the east while we travel west to St Lucia. In an ideal world this would be the best course to navigate but for a comfortable passage we need a steady wind speed and a relatively smooth sea state, and these are not always the situation. Othewise the boat running with the wind, rocks and rolls in an uncomfortable movement, as Bruce would say we are Born to Run.

After more that 7 days, time and days merge into one. You can relate and sympathize with the sailors of olden times making this voyage and the boredom they must have felt with the tedium of daily life. They did not have the luxury of Ipads to wonder at the app for looking at the night sky constellations, or listening to they favourite 2,000 different sea shanty's, or books to read (not useful at all when you cannot read ). Nor did they have the opportunity to discuss world events, the knowledge of other European cities, other languages, current Swedish crime writers, the footballing skills of Christan Ronaldo,Gareth Bale, Leon Messe or Naymar etc.

Beam us up Scotty

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